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Zaglossus hacketti (Hackett's Giant Echidna)
Taxonomy
Zaglossus hacketti was named by Glauert (1914). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Mammoth Cave, which is in a Pleistocene cave horizon in Australia.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1914 | Zaglossus hacketti Glauert p. 244 figs. Platex XXXVI-XXXVII |
| 2006 | Zaglossus hacketti Augee et al. p. 18 |
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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.
†Zaglossus hacketti Glauert 1914 [Hackett's Giant Echidna]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Hopson 1973, Nowak 1991, Luo et al. 2003 | |||||
Age range: Pleistocene or 2.58800 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pleistocene | Australia (Western Australia) | Zaglossus hacketti (type locality: 96022) |