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Peter Trusler. The
genus name,
Teinolophos,
means "extended ridge", a
reference to its
tooth structure. Originally,
Teinolophos was
thought to be a eupantothere...
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across Antarctica from Australia.
Another two genera,
Steropodon and
Teinolophos, were
originally thought to
belong to the Ornithorhynchidae. However...
- type
genus of Steropodontidae, its own
monotypic family. The
monotreme Teinolophos was
suggested to also
belong in this family,
before also
being placed...
- †Teinolophidae
Genus †Stirtodon
Species †Stirtodon
elizabethae Genus †
Teinolophos Species †
Teinolophos trusleri – 123 Ma,
oldest monotreme specimen Superfamily Ornithorhynchoidea...
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Ornithorhynchus is
known from Pliocene-aged strata. The
extinct monotremes Teinolophos and
Steropodon from the
Cretaceous were once
thought to be
closely related...
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relatively large trough in the jaw bone of the
early Cretaceous monotreme Teinolophos provides evidence of a pre-mammalian jaw joint,
because therapsids and...
- have been
described as
belonging to this family:
Teinolophos (the type genus), and Stirtodon.
Teinolophos is
deeply divergent within monotreme evolution...
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placenta was a
later development. One of the earliest-known
monotremes was
Teinolophos,
which lived about 120 million
years ago in Australia.
Monotremes have...
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described member of the
family Steropodontidae.
Another proposed member is
Teinolophos that was
moved into its own family, Teinolophidae, by
Flannery et al...
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reconstructions of
extinct organisms. He is the
namesake for the
extinct monotreme Teinolophos trusleri,
discovered on the
Victorian coast in
December 2000, a significant...
