Tartarocyon, Solé & Lesport & Heitz & Mennecart, 2022

Solé, Floréal, Lesport, Jean-François, Heitz, Antoine & Mennecart, Bastien, 2022, A new gigantic carnivore (Carnivora, Amphicyonidae) from the late middle Miocene of France, PeerJ 10, pp. 1-29 : 7

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.7717/peerj.13457

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9FE7C271-9402-4062-B9B5-2087C8ACDC04

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6791679

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/70359DC0-49E9-4E87-BC90-B02D5CFAFBB1

taxon LSID

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

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Tartarocyon
status

gen. nov.

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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Carnivora

SubOrder

Caniformia

Family

Amphicyonidae

Tribe

Amphicyonini

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