†family Teinolophidae Flannery et al. 2022 (monotreme)

Mammalia - Monotremata - Teinolophidae

Full reference: T. F. Flannery, T. H. Rich, P. Vickers-Rich, T. Ziegler, E. G. Veatch and K. M. Helgen. 2022. A review of monotreme (Monotremata) evolution. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 46(1):3-20

Parent taxon: Monotremata according to T. F. Flannery et al. 2022

See also Poropat et al. 2023

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

Subtaxa: Teinolophos

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Type: Teinolophos

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Flat Rocks, Bunurong Marine Park (Cretaceous of Australia)

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