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Dawsonicyon
Temporal range: 49.0–46.7  Ma
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S
D
C
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T
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N
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

  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.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dawsonicyon
Temporal range: 49.0–46.7  Ma
O
S
D
C
P
T
J
K
N
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

  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.

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