Cave hyena
This jaw bone is the first fossil recorded in RAMM’s fossil register (it has the accession number Fos1). Hyena made a den in Kent’s Cavern. They were scavengers but also hunted in packs and could drag baby mammoth back to the caves.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- Fos1
- Collection Class
- Fossils
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Belfield, Reverend J
- Common Name
- cave hyena
- Simple Name
- fossil: mammal
- Period Classification
- Pleistocene (2.6 mya - 10,000 years)
- Production Town
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- Production Year Low
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