†family Steropodontidae Flannery et al. 1995 (monotreme)
Mammalia - Monotremata - Steropodontidae
Full reference: T. F. Flannery, M. Archer, T. H. Rich and R. Jones. 1995. A new family of monotremes from the Cretaceous of Australia. Nature 377:418-420
Parent taxon: Monotremata according to Z. Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004
See also Flannery et al. 1995 and Rich et al. 2001
Sister taxa: Agathodonta, Cacodonta, Kollikodontidae, Kryoryctes, Ornithorhynchidae, Patagorhynchus, Platypoda, Spondilocoelia, Stirtodon, Tachyglossa, Tachyglossidae
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: scansorial insectivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Steropodontidae in the database