Gansuyaena
| Gansuyaena Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Hyaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Protelinae |
| Genus: | †Gansuyaena |
| Species: | †G. megalotis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Gansuyaena megalotis Galiano et. al., 2021
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Gansuyaena is an extinct genus of proteline hyaenid that lived during the Miocene epoch.
Distribution
[edit]Gansuyaena megalotis is known from fossils found in the Linxia Basin.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Galiano, H.; Tseng, Z. J.; Solounias, N.; Wang, X.-M.; Qiu, Z.-X.; White, S. C. (2021). "A new aardwolf-line fossil hyena from Middle and Late Miocene deposits of Linxia Basin, Gansu, China". Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 60 (2): 81–116. doi:10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.211025.