Mammalia - Monotremata - Ornithorhynchidae

Full reference: M. Archer, T. F. Flannery, A. Ritchie and R. E. Molnar. 1985. First Mesozoic mammal from Australia-- an early Cretaceous monotreme. Nature 318:363-366

Belongs to Steropodon according to M. Archer et al. 1985

See also Flannery et al. 1995, Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004, Kool et al. 2000 and Poropat et al. 2023

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: AM F66763, a mandible (R dentary fragment with M1-3). Its type locality is Lightning Ridge (General Area), which is in a Cenomanian/Cenomanian fluvial siltstone in the Griman Creek Formation of Australia.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore-herbivore

Distribution: found only at Lightning Ridge (General Area)

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.