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Ornithorhynchus
Taxonomy
Ornithorhynchus was named by Blumenbach (1800). It is extant.
It was assigned to Ornithoryncina by Gray (1825); to Australosphenida by Martin and Rauhut (2005); and to Ornithorhynchidae by Lydekker (1894), Carroll (1988), Rich et al. (2005) and Rowe et al. (2008).
It was assigned to Ornithoryncina by Gray (1825); to Australosphenida by Martin and Rauhut (2005); and to Ornithorhynchidae by Lydekker (1894), Carroll (1988), Rich et al. (2005) and Rowe et al. (2008).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1800 | Ornithorhynchus Blumenbach |
| 1825 | Ornithorhyncus Gray p. 343 |
| 1894 | Ornithorhynchus Lydekker p. 279 |
| 1988 | Ornithorhynchus Carroll |
| 2005 | Ornithorhynchus Martin and Rauhut |
| 2005 | Ornithorhynchus Rich et al. p. 913 |
| 2008 | Ornithorhynchus Rowe et al. p. 1241 |
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G. Ornithorhynchus Blumenbach 1800
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Gingerich 2003, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009, Hopson 1973 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Pliocene to the top of the Holocene or 5.33300 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 2.588 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 2.588 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pliocene | Australia (New South Wales) | O. agilis (95862) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (Queensland) | O. agilis (28422) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Queensland) | O. anatinus (21688) |