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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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Clade: | †Aegialodontia |
| Family: | †Aegialodontidae |
| Genus: | †Aegialodon Kermack, Lees and Mussett, 1965 |
| Species: | †A. dawsoni
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| †Aegialodon dawsoni Kermack, Lees and Mussett, 1965
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References
edit- ^ 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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