Cyonarctos, Bonis, 2013

Bonis, Louis De, 2013, Ursidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) from the Late Oligocene of the “ Phosphorites du Quercy ” (France) and a reappraisal of the genus Cephalogale Geoffroy, 1862, Geodiversitas 35 (4), pp. 787-814 : 790

Cyonarctos n. gen.

ETYMOLOGY. — From the Greek cyon (dog) and arctos (bear) for an ursid looking like a canid.

TYPE SPECIES. — Cyonarctos dessei n. sp. by present designation.

DIAGNOSIS. — Ŋat of the type species.

DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS. — Adelpharctos differs by the larger size, the relatively higher trigonid and the short talonid of m1, the three rooted P2-P3 and the more V shaped M1. Cephalogale lacks a pacd in p2-p3, p4 is lower than the paraconid of m1, the premolar crowns more mas - sive, diastemas between p2-p3 and p3-p4. Phoberogale has lower and more elongated P2-P3 and p2-p4, and robust cingula and cingulids Filholictis n. gen. is more primitive with m1 shorter relative to the premolars and with its metaconid in contact with the paraconid, and a short m2.