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Zaglossus robustus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Mammalia

Family
  
Tachyglossidae

Scientific name
  
Zaglossus robustus

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Monotremata

Genus
  
Zaglossus

Rank
  
Species

Similar
  
Zaglossus hacketti, Megalibgwilia, Sir David's long‑beaked echidna, Eastern long‑beaked echidna, Steropodontidae

Zaglossus robustus is an extinct species of long-beaked echidna known from the middle Miocene (about 13 or 14 million years ago) of Gulgong, New South Wales, Australia. It may belong in the genus Megalibgwilia. The supposed fossil platypus Ornithorhynchus maximus was based on a humerus of this species.

Literature cited

  • Hall, B.K. 1999. The paradoxical platypus (subscription required). BioScience 49(3):211–218.
  • Musser, A.M. 1999. Diversity and relationships of living and extinct monotremes. Australian Mammalogy 21:8–9.
  • Musser, A.M. 2003. Review of the monotreme fossil record and comparison of palaeontological and molecular data (subscription required). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A 136:927–942.

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