Dawsonicyon | |
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Scientific 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 anextinctgenus of placental mammals from cladeCarnivoraformes, that lived inNorth America from the early to middleEocene.[1] Fossils of type speciesDawsonicyon isami are known from the ‘Bridger B’, site ofBlack’s Fork member of theBridger Formation inWyoming, and includes an almost completeskeleton (holotype DMNH 19585).[1]
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