A new species of Eofelis (Carnivora: Nimravidae) from the Phosphorites of Quercy, France
Abstract
For the first time, a great part of the material assigned to the small nimravid Eofelis is present in a single work. A revised diagnosis is proposed and two species are distinguished in the old collections from the Phosphorites of Quercy: E. edwardsii which is the type species and the most abundant in collections; and Eofelis giganteus n.sp., a very large species since it is about twice as large as E. edwardsii. Unfortunately, the nature of the old collections from Quercy does not allow us to establish an ancestry-to-descendant relationship between these taxa.
- Publication:
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Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science
- Pub Date:
- May 2000
- DOI:
- 10.1016/S1251-8050(00)00199-3
- Bibcode:
- 2000CRASE.330..653P