Jerrychang Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 Need some help with identifying this skull from Hezheng, China. The seller said it is a young adcrocuta skull, but I think it might be an ictitheriinae. The length of the skull is about 20 cm. Thanks for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiros Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 (edited) The skull morphology appears to be more closer to the Ictitherinae but could also be caused by skull deformation. Compare the teeth morphology. Adcrocuta started to be adapted to bone crushing so the teeth are more massive than in ictitherium Edited May 10, 2022 by Kiros 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiros Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 The premolars of you specimen are more similar to and Ictitherinae in my opinion 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahnmut Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 In my eyes the teeth look disproportionally large , that could fit a juvenile. 1 Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerrychang Posted May 11, 2022 Author Share Posted May 11, 2022 (edited) Roughly cleaned up the other side. I think the jaw shape on this side is more correct than the other side because the lower jaw teeth are not squashed. Edited May 11, 2022 by Jerrychang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiros Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 6 hours ago, Mahnmut said: In my eyes the teeth look disproportionally large , that could fit a juvenile. That's true, also the frontal bones looks quite vertical 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiros Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 On the other side nasal cavities look quite small to be adcrocuta 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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