| Kryoryctes | |
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| Holotype humerus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Monotremata |
| Family: | †Kollikodontidae (?) |
| Genus: | †Kryoryctes Pridmore, Rich, Vickers-Rich & Gambaryan, 2005 |
| Species: | †K. cadburyi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Kryoryctes cadburyi Pridmore et al., 2005
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Kryoryctes is a genus of prehistoric monotreme mammal from the Early Cretaceous (Albian) Eumeralla Formation[1] of Victoria, Australia from the Otway Group of Dinosaur Cove. It is known only from a partial right humerus, estimated at 106 million years old, and contains one species, Kryoryctes cadburyi. The holotype, NMV P208094, was described in 2005 and is currently housed in the Museums Victoria Palaeontological Collection.[2]
- ^ Kear, Benjamin A.; Hamilton-Bruce, Robert J. (2011), Dinosaurs in Australia: Mesozoic Life from the Southern Continent, CSIRO Publishing, p. 134, ISBN 978-0643100459
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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