What is Teinolophos?
{{italictitle}} {{Taxobox | name = ''Teinolophos'' | fossil_range = [[Lower Cretaceous]] | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | classis = [[Mammal]]ia | ordo = [[Monotreme|Monotremata]] | familia= [[Steropodontidae]] | genus = '''''Teinolophos''''' | binomial = ''Teinolophos trusleri'' | binomial_authority = Rich et al., 1999}} '''''Teinolophos trusleri''''' was a prehistoric species of [[monotreme]], or egg-laying mammal. It is known from a lower jawbone found in Flat Rocks, [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], [[Australia]]. It lived during the Lower [[Cretaceous]], about 123 million years ago (mya).<ref>Rich T.H.''et al'' 1999. Early Cretaceous mammals from Flat Rocks, Victoria, Australia. ''Records of the Queen Victoria Museum'', Launceston.</ref><ref>Rich T.H. ''et al'' 2001. Monotreme nature of the Australian early Cretaceous mammal ''Teinolophos''. ''Acta Palaeontologica Polonica'' '''46(1)''', 113–118.</ref> == References == {{wikispecies|Teinolophos}} {{reflist}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Monotremes]]