Temporal range: Late Oligocene-Late Miocene ~28–5 Ma
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Obdurodon dicksoni skull at the American Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Monotremata
Family:
Ornithorhynchidae
Genus:
†Obdurodon Woodburne & Tedford 1975[1]
Type species
Obdurodon insignis
Woodburne & Tedford, 1975
Species
O. dicksoni M. Archer et al. 1992
O. insignis Woodburne & Tedford, 1975
O. tharalkooschild Pian et al. 2013
Obdurodon is a genus of extinct platypus-like Australian monotreme which lived from the Late Oligocene to the Late Miocene. Three species have been described in the genus, the type species Obdurodon insignis, plus Obdurodon dicksoni and Obdurodon tharalkooschild. The species appeared much like their modern day relative the platypus, except adults retained their molar teeth, and unlike the platypus, which forages on the lakebed, they may have foraged in the water column or surface.
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been described in the genus, the type species Obdurodon insignis, plus Obdurodon dicksoni and Obdurodon tharalkooschild. The species appeared much like...
of the genus. The authors compared their fossil material to the genus Obdurodon, ornithorhynchid species first discovered at Australian fossil sites in...
anatinus (the modern platypus) Genus †Obdurodon (Oligocene to Miocene) †Obdurodon dicksoni †Obdurodon insignis †Obdurodon tharalkooschild Genus ?†Dharragarra...
†Obdurodon – includes a number of Miocene (24–5 Ma) Riversleigh platypuses Species †Obdurodon dicksoni Species †Obdurodon insignis Species †Obdurodon tharalkooschild...
hunting in murky waters may be tied to their tooth loss. The extinct Obdurodon was electroreceptive, but unlike the modern platypus it foraged pelagically...
indicate the presence of a bill, similar to those of the extinct species Obdurodon dicksoni and the modern platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus. Fossil monotremes...
Flannery et al., 2024 Genus ?†Monotrematum Pascual et al., 1992 Genus †Obdurodon Woodburne & Tedford, 1975 Genus ?†Patagorhynchus Chimento et al., 2023...
in Western Australia, and is the largest monotreme so far uncovered. Obdurodon dicksoni was a platypus up to 60 cm (2 ft) in total length, fossils of...
weighing probably up to 30 kg (66 lb). The largest known ornithorhynchid is Obdurodon tharalkooschild, it was even larger than 70 cm (28 in)-long Monotrematum...
primary chronicle critical edition – Interlinear line-level collation". pvl.obdurodon.org. Retrieved 5 May 2023. Dimnik, Martin (January 2004). "The Title "Grand...
primary chronicle critical edition – Interlinear line-level collation". pvl.obdurodon.org (in Church Slavic). Retrieved 18 May 2024. The Taktika of Leo VI (Text...
skull and nearly complete dentition of a 15-million-year-old monotreme, Obdurodon dicksoni, provide a window into the evolution of this characteristically...
†Monotrematum Pascual et al. 1992 Genus †Steropodon Archer et al. 1985 Genus †Obdurodon Woodburne & Tedford 1975 Family Tachyglossidae Gill 1872 [Echidnidae Burnett...
primary chronicle critical edition – Interlinear line-level collation". pvl.obdurodon.org (in Church Slavic). Retrieved 17 May 2023. Priselkov, M. D. (1950)...
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