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Dawsonicyon

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Dawsonicyon
Temporal range: 49.0–46.7 Ma
early to middle Eocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Pan-Carnivora
Clade: Carnivoramorpha
Clade: Carnivoraformes
Genus: Dawsonicyon
Spaulding, Flynn & Stucky, 2010[1]
Type species
Dawsonicyon isami
Spaulding, Flynn & Stucky, 2010

Dawsonicyon ("Dawson's dog") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America from the early to middle Eocene.[1] Fossils of type species Dawsonicyon isami are known from the ‘Bridger B’, site of Black’s Fork member of the Bridger Formation in Wyoming, and includes an almost complete skeleton (holotype DMNH 19585).[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Michelle Spaulding; John J. Flynn; Richard K. Stucky (2010). "A new basal Carnivoramorphan (Mammalia) from the 'Bridger B' (Black's Fork member, Bridger Formation, Bridgerian Nalma, middle Eocene) of Wyoming, USA". Palaeontology. 53 (4): 815–832. Bibcode:2010Palgy..53..815S. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00963.x.