Aegialodon

Extinct family of mammals

Aegialodon
Temporal range: Valanginian
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Aegialodontia
Family: Aegialodontidae
Genus: Aegialodon
Kermack, Lees and Mussett, 1965
Species:
A. dawsoni
Binomial name
Aegialodon dawsoni
Kermack, Lees and Mussett, 1965

Aegialodon dawsoni is an extinct mammal from the early Cretaceous, known from fossilised teeth discovered in the Wadhurst Clay Formation (dating to about 136 million years ago) near Cliff End, Hastings, East Sussex.[1]

References

  1. ^ Kermack, Lees and Mussett, UCL 1965
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Aegialodon dawsoni


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