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Hystrix primigenia is an extinct species of Old World porcupine that lived during the Late Miocene and Pliocene. Fossils of this species were recovered mainly from southern Europe, from Spain to Turkey and North Africa as well. The earliest fossils were found in Greece and the Balkan peninsula. [2]
The crested porcupine (Hystrix cristata), a typical representative of the Old World porcupines, occurs throughout the south of Europe and North and West Africa. It is replaced in southern and central Africa by the Cape porcupine , H. africaeaustralis , and in India by the Malayan porcupine ( H. brachyura ) and Indian (crested) porcupine ( H ...
Hystrix is a genus of porcupines containing most of the Old World porcupines. ... †Hystrix primigenia - Late Miocene-Pliocene
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Hystrix refossa was larger than living porcupines. It was approximately 20% larger than its closest relative, the living Indian porcupine ( H. indica ), reaching lengths of over 115 cm (45 in). It also differs from the Indian porcupine in having a high and narrow occipital region, in the anteriorly convergent arrangement of maxillary cheek ...
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Lisowicia compared to a human. The plant-eating dicynodont Lisowicia bojani is the largest-known of all non-mammalian synapsids, at about 4.5 m (15 ft) long, 2.6 m (8 ft 6 in) tall, and 9,000 kg (20,000 lb) in body mass.