Aegialodon
Aegialodon Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | †Aegialodontia |
Family: | †Aegialodontidae |
Genus: | †Aegialodon Kermack, Lees and Mussett, 1965 |
Species: | †A. dawsoni
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Binomial name | |
†Aegialodon dawsoni Kermack, Lees and Mussett, 1965
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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]
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Categories:
- Early Cretaceous mammals of Europe
- Valanginian genera
- Prehistoric mammal genera
- Fossil taxa described in 1965
- Cretaceous mammal stubs