| Named By: | Miklos Kretzoi in 1938 |
| Time Period: | Middle Miocene-Late Miocene |
| Location: | Across Africa and Asia with countries including Algeria, China, Ethiopia, Libya, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Turkey |
| Size: | Around 1.5 meters long |
| Diet: | Carnivore |
| Fossil(s): | Multiple specimens though often of partial remains |
| Classification: | | Chordata | Mammalia | Carnivora | Percrocutidae | |
Percrocuta is an extinct genus of hyena-like feliform carnivores. It lived in Europe, Asia, and Africa, during the Miocene epoch.
With a maximum length of 1.50 m (5 ft), Percrocuta was much bigger than its modern relatives, but smaller than a female lion. Like the spotted hyena, Percrocuta had a robust skull and powerful jaws. Similar to modern hyenids, its hind legs were shorter than the front legs, resulting in a characteristic sloping back.
Percrocuta was introduced as a genus of Percrocutidae in 1938. Percrocuta's relation to the family Hyaenidae was debated until 1985, when Percrocuta, Dinocrocuta, Belbus, and Allohyaena were accepted as the four genera of Percrocutidae.