Kollikodon
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| Kollikodon ritchiei Temporal range: Early Cretaceous |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Monotremata |
| Suborder: | Platypoda |
| Family: | Kollikodontidae Flannery, Archer, Rich & Jones, 1995 |
| Genus: | Kollikodon Flannery, Archer, Rich & Jones, 1995 |
| Species: | K. ritchiei |
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| Kollikodon ritchiei Flannery, Archer, Rich & Jones, 1995 |
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Kollikodon ritchiei is a fossil monotreme species. It is known from an opalised teeth frgament, with one premolar and two molars in situ. The fossil was found al Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia.
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Wikispecies has information on: Kollikodon. |
- Flannery, T.F., Archer, M., Rich, T.H., Jones, R. (1995) "A new family of monotremes from the Cretaceous of Australia". Nature 377: 418-420.
