The skull was unearthed in the 1990s during one of the excavation campaigns at Els Casots, the site in the municipality of Subirats (Alt Penedès) that over time has become one of the key Miocene locations in Europe.
At the time, researchers assumed it belonged to an already known specimen of the genus Paludocyon, of which fragmentary remains had been found in the area and in other countries. With nothing new to investigate, the piece was put into storage.
