Filholictis filholi (Filhol, 1877)

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

Filholictis filholi

(Munier-Chalmas in Filhol, 1877)

Canis filholi Munier-Chalmas in Filhol, 1877: 319, figs 123, 124. — Beaumont 1965: 23.

Cephalogale filholi – Schlosser 1888: 103; 1904-1905: 293. — Bonis 1973: 82.

HOLOTYPE. — Mandible figured by Filhol (1877: figs 123, 124); ( MNHN.F.nn).

DIAGNOSIS. — Primitive middle sized Cephalogalini n.tr. differing from the Amphicynodontidae by the large lower carnassial relative to the premolars and from the other Cephalogalini n. tr. by a less reduced metaconid of m 1 in contact with the paraconid and closing the central valley of the trigonid. High lower premolars without pacd, p3 as tall as p4 both being higher than the paraconid of m1; m2 relatively short for a Hemicyoninae , paraconid present but metaconid more developed than the protoconid.

TYPE LOCALITY. — Unknown, “Phosphorites du Quercy ”.

GEOLOGICAL AGE. — Unknown but probably Oligocene.