†family Kollikodontidae Flannery et al. 1995 (monotreme)

Mammalia - Monotremata - Kollikodontidae

Full reference: T. F. Flannery, M. Archer, T. H. Rich and R. Jones. 1995. A new family of monotremes from the Cretaceous of Australia. Nature 377:418-420

Parent taxon: Monotremata according to Z. Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004

See also Flannery et al. 1995

Sister taxa: Agathodonta, Cacodonta, Kryoryctes, Ornithorhynchidae, Patagorhynchus, Platypoda, Spondilocoelia, Steropodontidae, Stirtodon, Tachyglossa, Tachyglossidae

Subtaxa: Kollikodon

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Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Moonshine, Coocoran Opal Field (Cretaceous of Australia)

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