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Ornithorhynchidae (platypus)
Taxonomy
Ornithorhynchidae was named by Gray (1825). It is extant.
It was assigned to Platypoda by Gill (1872); to Ornithostomi by Cope (1889); and to Monotremata by Bonaparte (1850), Flower (1883), Flower and Lydekker (1891), Lydekker (1894), Woodburne and Tedford (1975), Archer et al. (1985), Carroll (1988), Griffiths et al. (1991), Nowak (1991), Archer et al. (1992), Pascual et al. (2002), Rich et al. (2005), Gelfo et al. (2007) and Rowe et al. (2008).
It was assigned to Platypoda by Gill (1872); to Ornithostomi by Cope (1889); and to Monotremata by Bonaparte (1850), Flower (1883), Flower and Lydekker (1891), Lydekker (1894), Woodburne and Tedford (1975), Archer et al. (1985), Carroll (1988), Griffiths et al. (1991), Nowak (1991), Archer et al. (1992), Pascual et al. (2002), Rich et al. (2005), Gelfo et al. (2007) and Rowe et al. (2008).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1825 | Ornithorhynchidae Gray |
| 1850 | Ornithorhynchidae Bonaparte p. 1 |
| 1872 | Ornithorhynchidae Gill p. 27 |
| 1883 | Ornithorhynchidae Flower p. 183 |
| 1889 | Ornithorhynchidae Cope p. 874 |
| 1891 | Ornithorhynchidae Flower and Lydekker p. 88 |
| 1894 | Ornithorhynchidae Lydekker p. 249 |
| 1975 | Ornithorhynchidae Woodburne and Tedford p. 3 |
| 1985 | Ornithorhynchidae Archer et al. p. 364 |
| 1988 | Ornithorhynchidae Carroll |
| 1991 | Ornithorhynchidae Griffiths et al. p. 90 |
| 1991 | Ornithorhynchidae Nowak |
| 1992 | Ornithorhynchidae Archer et al. p. 16 |
| 2002 | Ornithorhynchidae Pascual et al. p. 487 |
| 2005 | Ornithorhynchidae Rich et al. p. 913 |
| 2007 | Ornithorhynchidae Gelfo et al. |
| 2008 | Ornithorhynchidae Rowe et al. p. 1241 |
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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.
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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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: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Luo et al. 2003, Nowak 1991, Hopson 1973 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Aptian to the top of the Holocene or 122.46000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 113.0 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 113.0 Ma
Collections (12 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Aptian | Australia (Victoria) | Teinolophos trusleri (51961) | |
| Early/Lower Cenomanian | Australia (New South Wales) | Steropodon galmani (38539) | |
| 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) | Ornithorhynchus agilis (95862) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (Queensland) | Ornithorhynchus agilis (28422) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Queensland) | Ornithorhynchus anatinus (21688) |