title: Diet and ecological niches of the Late Pleistocene hyenas Crocuta spelaea and C. ultima ussurica based on a study of tooth microwear
abstract: Extinct hyenas of the genus Crocuta were typical representatives of the Late Pleistocene mammoth fauna of Eurasia. The geographical distribution of these animals was vast, stretching from the British Isles to the Pacific coast. In this paper, we studied the tooth microwear of Crocuta spelaea from the Prolom 2 grotto in Crimea and the Bukhtarminskaya Cave in eastern Kazakhstan, and C. ultima ussurica from the Geographical Society Cave in the Russian Far East, to provide a comparative analysis of 
journal: Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology