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 Eofelis edwardsi ( Filhol, 1872 ) ( Fig. 5M ) TYPE MATERIAL . — Lectotype , hemi-mandible, MNHN .F.QU9539, phosphorites du Quercy , designated by Ginsburg 1979: 45 . NEW MATERIAL . — UM VBO 454, right upper canine. REMARKS This small feloid-like carnivoran was noted by Filhol (1872a) based on a mandible and described by the same author ( Filhol 1872b ) based on several specimens. Peigné (2000) , in a revision of the genus, identified a total of 52 remains of E. edwardsi in many collections but only three from the upper jaw, with only one canine. Until now we had not found any remains of Eofelis in more than fifty years of excavations in the Quercy. Thus, the new discovery UM VBO4511 is significant. This canine is slightly curved, bucco-laterally compressed (mesio-distal diameter = 8.8 mm , bucco-lingual = 5.6 mm ; ratio L/W = 1.57) the height from the tip of the crown to the base of the root is 37.3 mm ( Fig. 5M 1 , M 2 ). The buccal surface of the crown is slightly convex and the lingual one is quite flat. There are slight crenulations or serrations on the distal edge as indicated by Filhol (1872b: 6) for the lower canine of E. edwardsi and Peigné (2000: 657) for the lower and upper canines of the same species. The ratio L/W for the upper canine is close to that given by Peigné (2000 : table 1) for E. edwardsi (1.5). The size is slightly greater than that of a specimen figured by Ginsburg (1979 : fig. 10a, b) but the shape is similar. Another species, E . giganteus Peigné, 2000 , is much larger and although its upper canine is unknown, cannot fit our specimen. Thus, we attribute UM VBO454 to E. edwardsi which is firmly dated for the first time.