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Hystrix primigenia was much larger than living porcupines, perhaps as much as twice the size of the largest living species. It probably descended from a smaller, more primitive species known as Hystrix suevica. [3] Hystrix primigenia seems to have been adapted to warm dry climate, and inhabited areas rich in forests and open woodland ...
Hystrix is a genus of porcupines containing most of the Old World porcupines. ... †Hystrix primigenia - Late Miocene-Pliocene
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 ...
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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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Hystricomorpha (from Greek ὕστριξ, hystrix 'porcupine' and Greek μορφή, morphē 'form') [2] is a term referring to families and orders of rodents which has had many definitions throughout its history.