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Taxon profile

family

platypuse
Ornithorhynchidae Gray, 1825

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Mammalia - mammals »  order Platypoda - monotremes

Scientific synonyms

Platypoda

Other names

= duck-billed platypus

Temporal range:Tertiary > Neogene > Miocene – recent
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Included taxa

Number of records: 3

genus Ornithorhynchus Blumenbach, 1800

Fossil taxa

genus Monotrematum Pascual, Archer, Jaureguizar, Prado, Godthelp & Hand in Augee et al., 1992
Quaternary: Lower Pleistocene
genus Obdurodon Woodburne & Tedford, 1975

Links and literature

EN Australian Faunal Directory [fbb14653-91c4-4cf7-bd4d-d38f92a64b86]

ABRS (2009-2019): Australian Faunal Directory [https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/home], Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra [as Ornithorhynchidae]
Data retrieved on: 8 February 2015
EN The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [104028]

Rees, T. (compiler): The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [https://www.irmng.org] [as Ornithorhynchidae Gray, 1825]
Data retrieved on: 30 November 2019
CZ Anděra M. (1999): České názvy živočichů II. Savci (Mammalia), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 147 pp. [as Ornithorhynchidae]

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Explanations

extinct taxon