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Kollikodon ritchiei

Mammalia - Monotremata - Kollikodontidae

Taxonomy
Kollikodon ritchiei was named by Flannery et al. (1995). Its type specimen is AMPC F96602, a mandible (R dentary fragment with M/1, and alveoli for P/1, P/2 and M/4), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Moonshine, Coocoran Opal Field, which is in a Cenomanian estuary/bay claystone in the Griman Creek Formation of Australia. It is the type species of Kollikodon.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1995Kollikodon ritchiei Flannery et al. p. 418 figs. Fig. 1
2004Kollikodon ritchei Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 206, 212

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—AustralosphenidaLuo et al. 2001
orderMonotremataBonaparte 1838
familyKollikodontidae
genusKollikodon
speciesritchiei

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Kollikodon ritchiei Flannery et al. 1995
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Diagnosis
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