Ankalagon
| Ankalagon Temporal range: Early Paleocene
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| Life restoration of a female and male | |
| Scientific classification | |
| 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 is an extinct genus of 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. There is only one known species: the type species Ankalagon saurognathus. Discovered in the 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 the group.