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Monotremata (monotreme)
Taxonomy
Monotremata was named by Bonaparte (1838). It is extant.
It was corrected as Monotremati by Jaekel (1911); it was reranked as the unranked clade Monotremata by Gardiner (1982), Rowe (1988), Velazco et al. (2022).
It was assigned to Ovovivipara by Bonaparte (1850); to Ornithodelphia by Gill (1872); to Paratheria by Jaekel (1911); to Ornithodelphia by McKenna (1975); to Prototheria by Huxley (1880), Flower (1883), Flower and Lydekker (1891), Gadow (1898), Gregory (1910), Woodburne and Tedford (1975), Murray (1978), Carroll (1988), Griffiths et al. (1991), Nowak (1991); to Marsupionta by Kirsch and Mayer (1998); to Yinotheria by Kielan-Jaworowska et al. (2004); to Mammalia by Archer et al. (1985), Wible (1991), Rich et al. (2001), Wilson and Reeder (2005); to Australosphenida by Luo et al. (2001), Rauhut et al. (2002), Averianov and Lopatin (2011); and to Mammalia by Gardiner (1982), Rowe (1988), Rowe et al. (2008), Velazco et al. (2022).
It was corrected as Monotremati by Jaekel (1911); it was reranked as the unranked clade Monotremata by Gardiner (1982), Rowe (1988), Velazco et al. (2022).
It was assigned to Ovovivipara by Bonaparte (1850); to Ornithodelphia by Gill (1872); to Paratheria by Jaekel (1911); to Ornithodelphia by McKenna (1975); to Prototheria by Huxley (1880), Flower (1883), Flower and Lydekker (1891), Gadow (1898), Gregory (1910), Woodburne and Tedford (1975), Murray (1978), Carroll (1988), Griffiths et al. (1991), Nowak (1991); to Marsupionta by Kirsch and Mayer (1998); to Yinotheria by Kielan-Jaworowska et al. (2004); to Mammalia by Archer et al. (1985), Wible (1991), Rich et al. (2001), Wilson and Reeder (2005); to Australosphenida by Luo et al. (2001), Rauhut et al. (2002), Averianov and Lopatin (2011); and to Mammalia by Gardiner (1982), Rowe (1988), Rowe et al. (2008), Velazco et al. (2022).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1838 | Monotremata Bonaparte |
| 1850 | Monotremata Bonaparte p. 1 |
| 1872 | Monotremata Gill p. 27 |
| 1880 | Monotremata Huxley p. 653 |
| 1883 | Monotremata Flower p. 183 |
| 1891 | Monotremata Flower and Lydekker p. 88 |
| 1898 | Monotremata Gadow p. 39 |
| 1910 | Monotremata Gregory p. 464 |
| 1911 | Monotremati Jaekel p. 195 |
| 1975 | Monotremata McKenna p. 40 |
| 1975 | Monotremata Woodburne and Tedford p. 3 |
| 1978 | Monotremata Murray p. 41 |
| 1982 | Monotremata Gardiner p. 229 |
| 1985 | Monotremata Archer et al. p. 364 |
| 1988 | Monotremata Carroll |
| 1988 | Monotremata Rowe p. 245 figs. Figure 3 |
| 1991 | Monotremata Griffiths et al. p. 90 |
| 1991 | Monotremata Nowak |
| 1991 | Monotremata Wible |
| 1998 | Monotremata Kirsch and Mayer p. 1234 |
| 2001 | Monotremata Luo et al. p. 56 |
| 2001 | Monotremata Rich et al. p. 114 |
| 2002 | Monotremata Rauhut et al. |
| 2004 | Monotremata Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 206-210 |
| 2005 | Monotremata Wilson and Reeder |
| 2008 | Monotremata Rowe et al. p. 1241 |
| 2011 | Monotremata Averianov and Lopatin p. 34 |
| 2022 | Monotremata Velazco et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Or. Monotremata Bonaparte 1838 [monotreme]
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Fm. †Kollikodontidae Flannery et al. 1995
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Fm. Ornithorhynchidae Gray 1825 [platypus]
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G. †Obdurodon Woodburne and Tedford 1975
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†Obdurodon dicksoni Archer et al. 1992
†Obdurodon insignis Woodburne and Tedford 1975
†Obdurodon tharalkooschild Pian et al. 2013
G. Ornithorhynchus Blumenbach 1800
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Fm. Tachyglossidae Gill 1872 [echidna]
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G. †Murrayglossus Flannery et al. 2022
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†Murrayglossus hacketti Glauert 1914 [Hackett's Giant Echidna]
G. Tachyglossus Illiger 1811
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Tachyglossus aculeatus Shaw 1792 [short-beaked echidna]
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Tachyglossus aculeatus aculeatus Shaw 1792
Tachyglossus aculeatus lawesii Ramsay 1877
Tachyglossus aculeatus multiaculeatus Rothschild 1905
Tachyglossus aculeatus setosus Geoffroy 1803
Invalid names: Echidna hystrix Home 1802 [synonym]
Tachyglossus aculeatus acanthion Collett 1884
Invalid names: Echidna Cuvier 1797 [replaced]
G. Zaglossus Gill 1877
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Zaglossus attenboroughi Flannery and Groves 1998
Zaglossus bartoni Thomas 1907
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Zaglossus bartoni bartoni Thomas 1907
Zaglossus bartoni clunius Thomas and Rothschild 1922
Zaglossus bartoni smeenki Flannery and Groves 1998
Invalid names: Zaglossus bubuensis Lauri 1952 [synonym]
Zaglossus bartoni diamondi Flannery and Groves 1998
Zaglossus bruijni Peters and Doria 1876
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Invalid names: Bruijnia tridactyla Du Bois 1884 [synonym], Proechidna nigroaculeata Rothschild 1892 [synonym], Proechidna villosissima Dubois 1884 [synonym]
†Zaglossus robusta Dun 1894
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Invalid names: Ornithorhynchus maximus Dun 1894 [synonym], Zaglossus harrissoni Scott and Lord 1922 [synonym]
Invalid names: Acanthoglossus Gervais 1877 [synonym], Bruynia Dubois 1881 [synonym], Echidna oweni Kreft 1868 [nomen vanum], Proechidna Gervais 1877 [synonym], Prozaglossus Kerbert 1912 [synonym]
Fm. †Teinolophidae Flannery et al. 2022
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Invalid names: Agathodonta Ameghino 1889 [empty], Platypoda Gill 1872 [empty], Spondilocoelia Ameghino 1889 [empty], Steropodontidae Flannery et al. 1995 [empty], Tachyglossa Gill 1872 [empty]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Luo et al. 2003, Hopson 1973 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Barremian to the top of the Holocene or 125.77000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 121.4 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 121.4 Ma
Collections (32 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Barremian | Australia (Victoria) | Teinolophos trusleri, Monotremata indet. (51961) | |
| Early/Lower Albian | Australia (Victoria) | Kryoryctes cadburyi (38542) Monotremata indet., Sundrius ziegleri (118946) | |
| Early/Lower Cenomanian - Middle Cenomanian | Australia (New South Wales) | Kollikodon ritchiei (95861) Steropodon galmani (97756) Stirtodon elizabethae (224429) | |
| Early/Lower Maastrichtian | Argentina (Santa Cruz) | Patagorhynchus pascuali (206969) | |
| Danian | Argentina (Chubut) | Ornithorhynchidae indet. (95914) | |
| Oligocene | Australia (South Australia) | Obdurodon insignis (182109) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene | Australia (South Australia) | Obdurodon insignis (45652 51412 95828) | |
| Langhian - Serravallian | Australia (Queensland) | Obdurodon dicksoni (92641) | |
| Middle Miocene | Australia (Queensland) | Obdurodon tharalkooschild (151091) | |
| Pliocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Echidna robusta, Ornithorhynchus agilis (95862) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Australia ( New South Wales) | Zaglossus sp. (182621) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (Tasmania) | Zaglossus harrissoni (95911) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (Western Australia) | Zaglossus hacketti (96022) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Megalibgwilia ramsayi (136073 136076 181305) Tachyglossus aculeatus (136159 136430) Zaglossus ramsayi (28298) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Echidna oweni (95899) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (Victoria) | Zaglossus ramsay (136221) | |
| Quaternary | Australia (New South Wales) | Tachyglossus aculeatus (181307) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Tachyglossus aculeatus (136075) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Tachyglossus aculeatus (182957) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (Queensland) | Echidna oweni (95863) Ornithorhynchus agilis (28422) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Queensland) | Ornithorhynchus anatinus, Tachyglossus aculeatus (21688) |