| Ankalagon Temporal range: Early Paleocene
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| Life restoration of a female and male | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Mesonychia |
| Family: | †Mesonychidae |
| Genus: | †Ankalagon Van Valen, 1980 |
| Species: | †A. saurognathus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Ankalagon saurognathus (Wortman, in Matthew, 1897)
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| Synonyms | |
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Dissacus saurognathus | |
Ankalagon saurognathus is an extinct carnivorous mammal of the family Mesonychidae, endemic to North America during the Paleocene epoch (63.3—60.2 mya), existing for approximately 3.1 million years.[1]
Known from the Paleocene Nacimiento Formation of New Mexico, Ankalagon is the largest mesonychid known from the Paleocene of North America, and it provides the best evidence for sexual dimorphism in mesonychids.[2]
- ^ PaleoBiology Database: Ankalagon saurognathus, basic info
- ^ O'Leary, M.A.; S.G. Lucas & T.E. Williamson (2000). "A new specimen of Ankalagon (Mammalia, Mesonychia) and evidence of sexual dimorphism in mesonychians". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 20 (2): 387–393. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2000)020[0387:ANSOAM]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 4524103. S2CID 86542114.