Spotted hyena
- Description
- Hyenas were hunter-killers and liked to eat young woolly rhinoceros. Hyenas were probably Britainês top carnivores and had teeth that were ideal for catching and holding prey. This skull is about 55,000 years old and was found in Sandford Hill Bone Cave on the Mendip Hills.
- Accession Loan No.
- TTNCM : 44/1995/696
- Collection Class
- Fossils
- Common Name
- spotted hyena
- Simple Name
- animal remains
- Period Classification
- Palaeolithic (700,000-10,000 BC)
- Production Date
- 55,000 BP (about)
- Material
- animal remains
- Collector / Excavator
- William Beard
- Collection Site Name
- Sandford Hill
- Collection Parish
- Winscombe and Sandford
- Collection Town
- Sandford
- Collection County
- Somerset
- Collection Country
- England
- Collection Continent
- Europe
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Family
- Hyaenidae
- Genus
- Crocuta
- Species
- crocuta
