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.

Treatment

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.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Carnivora
Family	Amphicyonidae

Specimens

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