Cave hyena
Faunal remains from Kents Cavern. Pengelly number 3556c, Locality: Smerdon’s Passage, Series: 31, Parallel: 13, Level: 5, Yard: 1L, Deposit: Cave earth, 04/11/1870....
Faunal remains from Kents Cavern. Pengelly number 3556c, Locality: Smerdon’s Passage, Series: 31, Parallel: 13, Level: 5, Yard: 1L, Deposit: Cave earth, 04/11/1870....
Faunal remains from Kent’s Cavern. Tooth. Pengelly number 5669d, Locality: Cave of Rodentia, Series: 41, Parallel: 2, Level: 3, Yard: 1L, Deposit: Cave earth, 19/10/1871....
Faunal remains from Kents Cavern. Pengelly number 3413a, Locality: Smerdon’s Passage, Series: 30, Parallel: 20, Level: 2, Yard: 1L, Deposit: Cave earth, date: 01/10/1870. Relating pages in Pengelly’s diary: 914....
Left lower jaw of Crocuta spelaea. Hyenas, amongst other animals such as lion, saber-tooth cat and cave bear, found shelter in the numerous caves in South Devon during the Ice...
Faunal remains from Kents Cavern. Pengelly number 5716d, Locality: Cave of Rodentia, Series: 41, Parallel: 14, Level: 2, Yard: 1L, Deposit: Cave earth, 09/11/1876....
Faunal remains from Kents Cavern. Tooth. Pengelly number 3586. Locality: Smerdon’s Passage, Series: 31, Parallel: 17, Level: 4, Yard: 1R, Deposit: Cave earth, 14/11/1870....
Faunal remains from Kents Cavern. Tooth. Pengelly number 3546....
Faunal remains from Kents Cavern. Pengelly number 5772r, Locality: Cave of Rodentia, Series: 41, Parallel: 2, Level: 3, Yard: 1L, Deposit: Cave earth, 01/12/1871....
This knee bone fragment of a cave hyena was found in Bench Cavern at Brixham, and dates to the ‘Wolstonian glacial period’, a traditional yet unfashionable name given to an...