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Dawsonicyon

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Mammalia

Phylum
  
Chordata

Rank
  
Genus

Similar
  
Vulpavus, Viverravidae, Carnivoramorpha, Miacidae, Miacis

Dawsonicyon is an extinct genus of basal carnivoramorphan which existed in Wyoming, United States, during the middle Eocene. Fossils are known from the ‘Bridger B’, site of Black’s Fork member of the Bridger Formation and includes an almost complete skeleton (holotype DMNH 19585). It was first named by Michelle Spaulding, John J. Flynn and Richard K. Stucky in 2010 and the type species is Dawsonicyon isami.

References

Dawsonicyon Wikipedia