Leonhardtina, MATTHES, 1952

Solé, Floréal, Falconnet, Jocelyn & Yves, Laurent, 2014, New proviverrines (Hyaenodontida) from the early Eocene of Europe; phylogeny and ecological evolution of the Proviverrinae, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 171 (4), pp. 878-917 : 891

LEONHARDTINA MATTHES, 1952

Emended diagnosis (modified from

Lange-Badré & Haubold, 1990)

This proviverrine genus is characterized by low premolars without cingulids, P 3 longer than P 4, presence of two cusps on the talonid of P 3 and P 4, molars with a closed prefossid, equally developed paraconid and metaconid except on M 3 where the metaconid is lower, protoconid narrow and slightly elevated, talonid short and wide with a long hypoconulid, which is equidistant from the entoconid and the hypoconid – the latter being the highest cusp –, P 3 large, P 4 as long as wide, with large and isolated parastyle, large and sharply pointed protocone on molars, paracone as long as the metacone but taller, paracone and metacone completely separated, long parastyle, small metacone, and parastyle as long as the protocone area on M 3.

Type species

Leonhardtina gracilis Matthes, 1952 .

Referred species

Leonhardtina godinoti sp. nov.

Type locality

MP12−13 , Geiseltal ( Germany) .

Distribution

MP10, Grauves ( France); MP12−13, Geiseltal ( Germany).