Monotrematum sudamericanum is an extinct monotreme species from the Paleocene (Peligran) Salamanca Formation in Patagonia, Argentina.[1] It is one of only two monotremes found outside Oceania.
Monotrematum sudamericanum is an extinct monotreme species from the Paleocene (Peligran) Salamanca Formation in Patagonia, Argentina. It is one of only...
Ornithorhynchidae are the genera Monotrematum, Obdurodon, and Ornithorhynchus: Family Ornithorhynchidae Genus † Monotrematum †Monotrematum sudamericanum Genus †Obdurodon...
tharalkooschild – Middle Miocene and Upper Miocene (15–5 Ma) Genus Monotrematum Species Monotrematum sudamericanum – 61& Ma, southern South America Family Tachyglossidae...
Unlike the modern platypus (and echidnas), Teinolophos lacked a beak. Monotrematum sudamericanum, another fossil relative of the platypus, has been found...
Obdurodon tharalkooschild, it was even larger than 70 cm (28 in)-long Monotrematum sudamericanum. Kollikodon was likely the largest monotreme in the Mesozoic...
be very similar in form to a modern platypus, but larger, exceeding Monotrematum in size and length. and lived in the middle to late Miocene (15 to 5...
Cretaceous. Paleocene marsupials include Peradectes, and monotremes Monotrematum. The epoch featured the rise of many crown placental groups—groups that...
61-million-year-old platypus was found in southern Argentina (since named Monotrematum, though it is now considered to be an Obdurodon species). (See fossil...
and then dispersed to Australia after the monito del monte split off. Monotrematum, a 61-Ma-old platypus-like monotreme fossil from Patagonia, may represent...
probably was aquatic, and echidnas thus secondarily became terrestrial. Monotrematum sudamericanum is currently the oldest aquatic monotreme known. It has...