Pliocrocuta is an extinct genus of hyena.

[1] It contains the species Pliocrocuta perrieri, known from the Pliocene to Early Pleistocene of Eurasia and possibly Africa.

It is possibly ancestral to Pachycrocuta.

[2] The species is estimated to have weighed around 56 kilograms (123 lb) on average, with its skull showing evidence for adaptation to bone cracking.

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