Carnivora from the early Oligocene of the ‘ Phosphorites du Quercy’ in southwestern France
Author
Bonis, Louis de
Palevoprim: laboratoire de Paléontologie, Évolution, Paléoécosystèmes, Paléoprimatologie, Bâtiment B 35 TSA 51106, 6 rue Michel Brunet F- 86073 Poitiers cedex 9 (France)
louis.debonis@univ-poitiers.fr
Author
Gardin, Axelle
Palevoprim: laboratoire de Paléontologie, Évolution, Paléoécosystèmes, Paléoprimatologie, Bâtiment B 35 TSA 51106, 6 rue Michel Brunet F- 86073 Poitiers cedex 9 (France)
axelle.gardin@univ-poitiers.fr
Author
Blondel, Cécile
Palevoprim: laboratoire de Paléontologie, Évolution, Paléoécosystèmes, Paléoprimatologie, Bâtiment B 35 TSA 51106, 6 rue Michel Brunet F- 86073 Poitiers cedex 9 (France)
cecile.blondel@univ-poitiers.fr
text
Geodiversitas
2019
2019-09-10
41
15
601
621
journal article
10.5252/geodiversitas2019v41a15
1e89d723-7f54-4d6b-85dd-6bcd573eca32
1638-9395
3694209
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9DD3CC29-3AEA-44B8-8E8F-6AD882DF5B1C
Genus
Wangictis
n. gen.
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:
BB1F314F-5373-48DA-AC87-80C87E8816D7
TYPE
SPECIES
. —
Pachycynodon tedfordi
Wang & Qiu, 2003
.
DIAGNOSIS (as the
type
species modified from
Wang & Qiu 2003
). — Medium-sized
Amphicynodontidae
; mandible height tapering medially; two mental foramina, one under the distal root of p3 and another, very large, under p1 and p2; premolars low; p1-p3 very asymmetrical and mesially inclined; presence of diastemas before and after p4, the latter tooth with well-developed pacd; m1 low with a short paraconid and a relatively reduced metaconid; relatively long m2 without paraconid; no notch between protoconid and cristid obliqua in one hand and between postmetaconid cristid and preentoconid cristid in the other hand.
ETYMOLOGY. — From
ictis
(latin: weasel) and dedicated to Xiaoming Wang for his work on
Carnivora
.
REMARKS
Wang & Qiu (2003)
described a new species allocated to the genus
Pachycynodon
recovered during a field campaign to
Nei Mongol
by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology,
Beijing
(IVPP). Comparing this taxon to European representatives of the
Pachycynodon
, it appears that it belongs to a new genus that we here name
Wangictis
n. gen.