Belbus
| Belbus Temporal range: Late Miocene (Turolian) | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Hyaenidae |
| Genus: | †Belbus Werdelin & Solounias, 1991 |
| Type species | |
| †Belbus beaumonti Qiu, 1987 | |
| Other species | |
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†B. djurabensis Bonis et al., 2010 | |
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Belbus (from Late Latin: belbus, 'hyena') is an extinct genus of hyaenids that lived in Europe and Africa during the Turolian of the Late Miocene. Belbus had durophagous adaptations in its dentition, but was less well-adapted to durophagy than modern durophagous hyaenids such as the spotted hyena or the brown hyena.