Fejfarictis, Bonis & Ekrt & Kunstmüllerová & Martínek & Rapprich & Wagner, 2024

Bonis, Louis de, Ekrt, Boris, Kunstmüllerová, Lucie, Martínek, Karel, Rapprich, Vladislav & Wagner, Jan, 2024, New early aeluroid carnivoran (Mammalia, Carnivora, Feliformia) from the classical palaeontological locality Valeč, the Czech Republic, Geodiversitas 46 (1), pp. 1-12 : 4

Genus Fejfarictis n. gen.

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TYPE SPECIES. — Fejfarictis valecensis n. sp.

ETYMOLOGY. — The new genus is named in honour of Professor Oldřich Fejfar, an outstanding Czech palaeontologist who devoted his life to the study of fossil mammals. He, among others, rediscovered and scientifically described the so-called “rodent from Valeč”. Ictis (ἴκτις) is an ancient Greek word for small mustelids, in scientific names commonly used for small carnivorans in general.

DIAGNOSIS. — Small aeluroid, elongate p4 with strong mesial and distal accessory cuspids, quite thick cingulid encircling distal margin, m1 with moderately high protoconid, paraconid edge mesially, lingually and slightly up directed, metaconid slightly distally shifted with respect to protoconid (visible in buccal view), talonid basined with two quite thick cristids, bi-rooted m2 with low cuspids and thick cristids.