Early Hyaena tooth Ictitherium viverrinum

Ictitherium viverrinum (Trouessart, 1897)
From the Late Miocene.
Collected from Guanghe,Gansu province,Northwestern China.
Very nice partial tooth displaying limited signs of wear,from this extinct, fantastic seven million year old Hyaenidae.
Oddly enough these were generally considered insectivores,and the site these were found was thought to be a large cave dwelling,
The specimen is loose from matrix and measures 22mm X 15mm