Mammalia - Monotremata

Full reference: T. H. Rich, T. F. Flannery, and P. Vickers-Rich. 2020. Evidence for a remarkably large toothed-monotreme from the Early Cretaceous of Lightning Ridge, NSW, Australia. Biological Consequences of Plate Tectonics: New Perspectives on Post-Gondwana Break-up—A Tribute to Ashok Sahni 77-81

Parent taxon: Monotremata according to T. H. Rich et al. 2020

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

Subtaxa: Stirtodon elizabethae

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Type: Stirtodon elizabethae

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Vertical Bill's claim, Albian (Cretaceous of Australia)

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