Opalios
Genus of fossil montremes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Opalios (meaning "opal") is an extinct genus of monotreme mammal from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Griman Creek Formation of Australia. The genus contains a single species, O. splendens, known from a fragmentary left dentary.
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Opalios | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Monotremata |
Superfamily: | Ornithorhynchoidea |
Family: | †Opalionidae Flannery et al., 2024 |
Genus: | †Opalios Flannery et al., 2024 |
Species: | †O. splendens |
Binomial name | |
†Opalios splendens Flannery et al., 2024 | |
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