Dawsonicyon

{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}}

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|fossil_range = {{fossil_range|49.0|46.7}} early to middle Eocene

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|taxon = Dawsonicyon

|authority = Spaulding, Flynn & Stucky, 2010

|type_species = †Dawsonicyon isami

|type_species_authority = 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.{{Cite journal |author1=Michelle Spaulding |author2=John J. Flynn |author3=Richard K. Stucky |year=2010 |title=A new basal Carnivoramorphan (Mammalia) from the 'Bridger B' (Black's Fork member, Bridger Formation, Bridgerian Nalma, middle Eocene) of Wyoming, USA |journal=Palaeontology |volume=53 |issue=4 |pages=815–832 |doi=10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00963.x |bibcode=2010Palgy..53..815S |doi-access=free}} 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).