A new species of Eofelis (Carnivora : Nimravidae) from the phosphorites ofQuercy, France

For the first time, a great part of the material assigned to the small nimr avid Eofelis is present in a single work. A revised diagnosis is proposed a nd two species are distinguished in the old collections from the Phosphorit es 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 o ld collections from Quercy does not allow us to establish an ancestry-to-de scendant relationship between these taxa. (C) 2000 Academie des sciences / Editions scientifiques et medicales Elsevier SAS.