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is 122.7 to 146.8 mm (4.83 to 5.78 in), averaging 137.9 mm (5.43 in), compared to 108.5 to 127.5 mm (4.27 to 5.02 in), averaging 116.1 mm (4.57 in), in the extant fossa. Body mass estimates for
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in 1658 as a large, rare, leopard-like carnivore that eats men and calves and lives in remote mountainous areas; it may have been the giant fossa.
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cave sites from the northern end of
Madagascar along the west coast to the far south, and in the central highlands. Some sites have yielded both
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Turvey, S.T. (2009). "In the shadow of the megafauna: prehistoric mammal and bird extinctions across the
Holocene". In Turvey, Samuel T (ed.).
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range from 17 kg (37 lb) to 20 kg (44 lb), and it was among the largest carnivores of the island. By comparison, adult
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as the name for the larger form of the fossa, Goodman and colleagues designated a specimen to serve as the type specimen (specifically, a
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Goodman, S.M.; Ganzhorn, J.U.; Rakotondravony, D. (2003). "Introduction to the mammals". In
Goodman, S.M.; Benstead, J.P. (eds.).
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522:Cryptoprocta antamba
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386:Guillaume Grandidier
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238:Subfossil sites for
2007:Extinct carnivorans
1908:Cryptoprocta spelea
1878:Cryptoprocta spelea
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