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Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany

Catalogue number : HLM, M719

Sex: female

Locality: –

Date of acquisition: 1830

History of mount: remounted in 1862 by Inspector Kertz (HilzHeimer 1912)

Measurements:

head – body 2,260 m
tail 0,520 m
ear 0,165 m
hindfoot 0,500 m
shoulder height 1,200 m
State of preservation: good

Further material of same individual: it is likely that the skull at Stuttgart belongs to this animal

References: Hilzheimer (1912)


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