Stirtodon
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Genus of fossil montremes
| Stirtodon | |
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Monotremata |
| Family: | †Teinolophidae (?) |
| Genus: | †Stirtodon |
| Species: | †S. elizabethae
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| Binomial name | |
| †Stirtodon elizabethae Flannery et al., 2020
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Stirtodon is an extinct genus of monotreme mammal from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Griman Creek Formation of Australia. The genus contains a single species, S. elizabethae, known from a large isolated premolar. Stirtodon may be the largest toothed monotreme discovered.[1] [2] Several other monotremes are known from the Griman Creek Formation, including Dharragarra , Kollikodon , Opalios , Parvopalus , and Steropodon .[3]
References
[edit ]- ^ Rich, Thomas H.; Flannery, Timothy F.; Vickers-Rich, Patricia (2020). "Evidence for a Remarkably Large Toothed-Monotreme from the Early Cretaceous of Lightning Ridge, NSW, Australia". In Prasad, Guntupalli V.R.; Patnaik, Rajeev (eds.). Biological Consequences of Plate Tectonics: New Perspectives on Post-Gondwana Break-up–A Tribute to Ashok Sahni. Springer Nature. pp. 77–81. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-49753-8_4. ISBN 978-3-030-49753-8.
- ^ Flannery, Timothy F.; Rich, Thomas H.; Vickers-Rich, Patricia; Ziegler, Tim; Veatch, E. Grace; Helgen, Kristofer M. (2022年01月02日). "A review of monotreme (Monotremata) evolution". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology . 46 (1): 3–20. doi:10.1080/03115518.2022.2025900 . ISSN 0311-5518.
- ^ Flannery, Timothy F.; McCurry, Matthew R.; Rich, Thomas H.; Vickers-Rich, Patricia; Smith, Elizabeth T.; Helgen, Kristofer M. (2024年05月26日). "A diverse assemblage of monotremes (Monotremata) from the Cenomanian Lightning Ridge fauna of New South Wales, Australia". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology : 1–19. doi:10.1080/03115518.2024.2348753 . ISSN 0311-5518.
