Genus Tartarocyon nov. gen.

ZooBank LSID. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 70359DC0-49E9-4E87-BC90-B02D5CFAFBB1

Type species. Tartarocyon cazanavei nov. gen. & sp.; monotypic, see below.

Etymology. Tartaro is the name of a legendary man-eater giant living in the Southwestern French Pyrenees, including the Bearn where the fossil has first been described. cyon is the Greek for dog.

Diagnosis. As for the type and only species.