Zaglossus robustus

Animalia — Chordata

Classis : Mammalia 
Ordo : Monotremata 
Familia : Tachyglossidae 
Genus : Zaglossus 
Species : †Z. robustus 

Zaglossus robustus 
(Dun, 1895)  

Palaeontologia

14–13 m.a.: Miocaenum medium

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Synonyma

*Ornithorhynchus maximus Dun, 1895

• Zaglossus harrissoni Scott and Lord, 1922

Zaglossus robustus est species exstincta Tachyglossidarum, quae medio aevo Miocaeno (abhinc fere 13 vel 14 milliones annorum) in regione hodiernae Novae Cambriae Australis Australiae vixit.^[1] Fortasse in genere Megalibgwilia includenda est. Platypus fossilis hypotheticus, Ornithorhynchus maximus, falso ex humero huius speciei excogitatus est.^[2]

Notae

1. Musser, 2003, p. 934
2. Musser, 1999, p. 8; Hall, 1999, p. 213

Bibliographia

• Hall, B.K. 1999. The paradoxical platypus. 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. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A 136:927–942.

• Australia's Lost World: Prehistoric Animals of Riversleigh by Michael Archer, Suzanne J. Hand, and Henk Godthelp (page 162)
• Augee, M. L.; Gooden, B.; Musser, A. (January 2006). Echidna: Extraordinary Egg-laying Mammal. Csiro Publishing. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-643-09204-4 

Nexus externi

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