| Steropodon Temporal range: Early Cretaceous | |
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| A restoration of Steropodon galmani | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Monotremata |
| Family: | †Steropodontidae |
| Genus: | †Steropodon |
| Species: | †S, galmani |
| Binomial name | |
| Steropodon galmani Archer, Flannery, Ritchie, & Molnar, 1985 | |
Steropodon was a small mammal that was similar to a platypus. It was an egg thief, eating dinosaur eggs. They also probably fed on insects.
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In popular culture[]
Walking with Dinosaurs Steropodon
- Steropodon was featured in the fifth episode of the series Walking with Dinosaurs, where it was not identified properly (later identified as Steropodon in the companion book) and live-acted by a coati, even though in reality Steropodon resembled nothing like a coati. In the episode, a Steropodon attempts to raid the nests of a group of Leaellynasaura, but one mother Leaellynasaura drives the mammal off by kicking dirt at it with her forearms.
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