The majority of bone features suggest that the specimen is closer in morphology to extant pangolin species than any pre-Pliocene fossils.

It also has some very meaningful differences in bone structure from both of these mentioned species, such as a larger supinator crest, which has been significantly identified as a feature found in older pangolin fossils.

Previous reports and publications regarding the site communicated a difficult to identify species, likely of the genus Manis; however, they did not choose to go into detail on the fossil.

A right humerus was accessioned, catalogued, and photographed in a reinventory process, with prior records and inventories from the original excavation having been lost.

This notably confirmed the presence of pangolins in Pleistocene Europe, while placing the specimen into the genus Smutsia, present today only in Africa.