TABLE 1 in Interspecific competition in ictitheres (Carnivora: Hyaenidae) from the Late Miocene of Eurasia

TABLE 1. — Body mass comparison (in kg; range, average and number of specimens) between Ictitherium viverrinum Roth, 1854 and Hyaenictitherium wongii (Zdansky, 1924) based on their skull length and m1 length using the equations given in Van Valkenburgh (1990) for canids.Data for fossil species and Canis lupus Linnaeus, 1758 from personal data and Semenov (1989). Data for Canis aureus Linnaeus, 1758 from Stoyanov (2012).
Ictitherium viverrinum Roth, 1854Hyaenictitherium wongii (Zdansky, 1924)Canis aureus Linnaeus, 1758Canis lupus Linnaeus, 1758BM (SKL)9.81-28.18 16.84 (n = 7)17.54-25.21 20.78 (n = 5)10.82-17.16 13.48 (n = 148)27.88-49.02 37.39 (n = 13)BM (m1L)9.05-13.01 11.07 (n = 30)11.72-17.19 14.20 (n = 30)10.80-14.83 12.81 (n = 148)15.97-27.61 22.82 (n = 10)