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Ornithorhynchidae (platypus)
Taxonomy
Ornithorhynchidae was named by Gray (1825). It is extant.
It was assigned 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 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).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1825 | Ornithorhynchidae Gray |
| 1850 | Ornithorhynchidae Bonaparte p. 1 |
| 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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