Steropodon galmani

Steropodon is a kind of monotrèmes extinguished, which counts only one species: Steropodon galmani . The name of Steropodon , comes from the Greek steropos “shining” and gifts “tooth”. This name was selected because the first fossils were in a fragment of opal.

  • Characterized by an opalized fragment of mandible found in 1985 in Griman Creek Formation, Lightning Ridge, News-Wales of the South, by Michael Archer, T.F. Flannery, Alex Ritchie, and Molnar. The fragment is preserved at Australian Museum, Sydney.
  • Time: Cretaceous lower, average Gault.
  • the fragment comprises three molars, which are 5-7 mm long and 3-4 mm broad. One deduced from it that the animal made between thirty and forty centimetres. The assumption was advanced that the channel on the edge of the mandible would be the proof of the existence of a nozzle (Mike O. Woodburne, 2003).

  • the fragment of mandible

Simple: Steropodon

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