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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 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 FormationinWyoming, and includes an almost complete skeleton (holotype DMNH 19585).[1]
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