Kollikodon
| Kollikodon Temporal range: Cenomanian, | |
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| Opalised jaw of Kollikodon (backlit) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Monotremata |
| Family: | †Kollikodontidae Flannery, Archer, Rich & Jones, 1995 |
| Genus: | †Kollikodon Flannery, Archer, Rich & Jones, 1995 |
| Species: | †K. ritchiei |
| Binomial name | |
| †Kollikodon ritchiei Flannery, Archer, Rich & Jones, 1995 | |
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Kollikodon is an extinct species of mammal, considered to be an early monotreme. It is known only from an opalised dentary fragment, with one premolar and two molars in situ, as well as a referred maxillary fragment containing the last premolar and all four molars. The fossils were found in the Griman Creek Formation at Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia, as was Steropodon. Kollikodon lived in the Late Cretaceous period, during the Cenomanian age (99–96 million years ago).
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