†family Steropodontidae Flannery et al. 1995 (monotreme)

Mammalia - Monotremata - Steropodontidae

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 S. F. Poropat et al. 2023

See also Flannery et al. 1995, Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004 and Rich et al. 2001

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

Subtaxa: none

Type: Steropodon

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Steropodontidae in the database

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