Aegialodon
| Aegialodon Temporal range: Early Cretaceous | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infralegion: | Tribosphenida |
| Supercohort: | †Aegialodontia |
| Family: | †Aegialodontidae |
| Genus: | †Aegialodon |
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Aegialodon dawsoni was a 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]
In popular culture
Aegialodon is heavily featured in several chapters of the novel Raptor Red, which chronicles a year in the life of a female Utahraptor, as a fierce predator of scorpions and other arthropods, as well as the ancestor of all living mammals.
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