Cryptoprocta bevatabe is an extinct member of the genus Cryptoprocta, the group that includes the living fossa, and is the largest euplerid known. It lived in Madagascar before about 8,300 years ago and is known from a single partial humerus found in a water-filled cave system at Mitoho in Tsimanampesotse National Park. Humeral regressions put its body mass between about 28 and 43 kg, with a median near 29 kg, and its head and body length near 113 cm with a tail of about 104 cm. The shape of the arm bone suggests it climbed as well as the living fossa does, and it is thought to have been an apex predator of giant lemurs such as Megaladapis. The name bevatabe is Malagasy for enormous.
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Cryptoprocta bevatabe is an extinct species of Cryptoprocta that lived in Madagascar prior to 8,300 years ago.
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Cryptoprocta bevatabe is an extinct species of Cryptoprocta that lived in Madagascar prior to 8,300 years ago.
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C. bevatabe was thought to have been an apex predator hunting giant lemurs such as Megaladapis.
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Humeral regressions estimate C. bevatabe to weigh between 27.88-42.92 kg (61-95 lb), with a median mass of 29 kg (64 lb), making it significantly larger than C. spelea.
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