Dawsonicyon Temporal range: Eocene
early to middle
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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
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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]
Dawsonicyon Temporal range: Eocene
early to middle
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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 Formation in Wyoming, and includes an almost complete skeleton ( holotype DMNH 19585). [1]