Dawsonicyon is an extinct genus

Genus

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 of basal carnivoramorpha

Carnivoramorpha

Carnivoramorpha are a clade of mammals that includes the modern order Carnivora and its closest extinct relatives in the Miacoidea , but excludes the creodonts. The order Creodonta are a sister taxon to the Carnivoramorpha dating back 58.7 million years ago...

n which existed in Wyoming

Wyoming

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, USA, during the middle Eocene

Eocene

The Eocene Epoch, lasting from about 56 to 34 million years ago , is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the Cenozoic Era. The Eocene spans the time from the end of the Palaeocene Epoch to the beginning of the Oligocene Epoch. The start of the...

. Fossils are known from the ‘Bridger B’, site of Black’s Fork member of the Bridger Formation and includes an almost complete skeleton

Skeleton

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 (holotype

Holotype

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 DMNH 19585). It was first named by Michelle Spaulding, John J. Flynn and Richard K. Stucky in 2010

2010 in paleontology

-Anomalocaridids:-Newly named crustaceans:-Newly named insects:* A new family, Cascopleciidae, is published by Poinar Jr.* A new family of ceraphronoid Hymenopters, Radiophronidae, is published by Ortega-Blanco, Rasnitsyn, and Delclòs....

and the type species is Dawsonicyon isami.