Genus Wangictis n. gen.

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TYPE SPECIES. — Pachycynodon tedfordi Wang & Qiu, 2003 .

DIAGNOSIS (as the type species modified from Wang & Qiu 2003). — Medium-sized Amphicynodontidae; mandible height tapering medially; two mental foramina, one under the distal root of p3 and another, very large, under p1 and p2; premolars low; p1-p3 very asymmetrical and mesially inclined; presence of diastemas before and after p4, the latter tooth with well-developed pacd; m1 low with a short paraconid and a relatively reduced metaconid; relatively long m2 without paraconid; no notch between protoconid and cristid obliqua in one hand and between postmetaconid cristid and preentoconid cristid in the other hand.

ETYMOLOGY. — From ictis (latin: weasel) and dedicated to Xiaoming Wang for his work on Carnivora .

REMARKS

Wang & Qiu (2003) described a new species allocated to the genus Pachycynodon recovered during a field campaign to Nei Mongol by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing (IVPP). Comparing this taxon to European representatives of the Pachycynodon, it appears that it belongs to a new genus that we here name Wangictis n. gen.