Aegialodon
Extinct family of mammals
Aegialodon Temporal range: Valanginian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Scientific 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
- ^ Kermack, K. A.; Lees, Patricia M.; Mussett, Frances (1965). "Aegialodon dawsoni, A New Trituberculosectorial Tooth from the Lower Wealden". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 162 (989): 535–554. ISSN 0080-4649.
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