Kollikodon
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Kollikodon ritchiei Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
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Family: | Kollikodontidae Flannery, Archer, Rich & Jones, 1995
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Genus: | Kollikodon Flannery, Archer, Rich & Jones, 1995
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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 fragment, 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.