Steropodontidae

Steropodontidae
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
Steropodon
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Monotremata
Suborder: Platypoda
Family: Steropodontidae
Archer, Flannery, Ritchie, & Jones, 1995
Genera

The Steropodontidae was a family of monotremes that are known from fossils from the Early Cretaceous in Australia.

There are two genera placed in this family; Steropodon, and Teinolophos which has been tentatively placed in the family due to the similarity of the lower molars in these two genera.

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