cave hyena (Crocuta crocuta spelaea) Trace of French cave art possibly depicting a cave hyena. Lascaux Cave, Dordogne, France.
Date Prehistoric.
Source Spassov N.; Stoytchev T. 2004. The presence of cave hyaena (Crocuta crocuta spelaea) in the Upper Palaeolithic rock art of Europe. Historia naturalis bulgarica, 16: 159-166.
Author Upper Paleolithic artist, derivative trace by Nikolai Spassov & Todor Stoytchev
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crocuta_crocuta_cave_art_-_Lascaux_cave.png
The cave hyena or Ice Age spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta spelaea) was a paleosubspecies of spotted hyena which ranged from the Iberian Peninsula to eastern Siberia. It is one of the best known mammals of the Ice Age and is well represented in many European bone caves.