ON FOSSIL CARNIVORA. Dah 
PAPERS. 
13. On the Fossil Carnivores Cynodictis intermedius and 
“Cynodon gracilis from the Phosphorites of Querey. By 
ALBERTINA CARLSSON *, Zootomical Institute, University 
of Stockholm. 
[Received December 23, 1913: Read Aprul 21, 1914. ] 
(Plate I.+) 
INDEX. 
Morphology : Page 
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Among the fragmentary fossils of Carnivora from the Phos- 
phorites of Quercy which belong to the collections of the 
Zootomical Institute in Stockholm, and which Professor Leche 
has requested me to examine, there were two which excited my 
special interest. 
CYNODICTIS INTERMEDIUS. (PI. I. figs. 1-3.) 
One was a part of a skull, consisting of the well-preserved 
brain-case and a fragment of the face. In the Catalogue it is 
designated No. 2216, Cynodictis sp. Comparing it with the 
descriptions of Filhol (1, p. 116) and Schlosser (4, pp. 40 & 47), 
I have identified it as Cynodictis intermedius. 
As we know very little about the skull of this species, or 
about that of most species of the same genus—Filhol knows 
only the foremost part of the face,—I will here give its characters. 
The skull in question belongs to an adult animal, for only the 
sutures between the squamosals and the frontals, as well as those 
between the basioccipital and the basisphenoid, can be seen. 
The head, which, as in other forms of Cynodictis, is long and 
not very broad, has a brain-case which, in its narrow and elon- 
gated form, vegeralolles more that of the recent Wirauetks than - 
that of the now living Canide (fig. 1). 
Filbol (1, p. 72) says of Cynodictis boried :—‘ La masse ae yell 
devait tre proportionnellement petite par rapport a la taille de 
Yanimal.” As in Cynodictis gryei (1, pl. 19), the face seems to. 
be comparatively more developed than the brain-case, the frontals 
—if it is allowed to judge from the distance between the orbits— 
being comparatively broader than in the Viverride. The crista 
sagittalis has attained a much higher degree of development than 
in "Viverrides and Canidez of the same size. As in the Viverride, 
the crista occipitalis is high, and consequently the height of the 
supraoccipital is considerable (fig. 2). 
* Communicated by OLpriELD THomas, F.R.S., F.Z.S. 
+ For explanation of the Plate see p. 230. 
Proc, Zoou. Soc.—1914, No. XVI. 16 
