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Taxon: Order Platypoda Gill, 1872 - platypuses (mammal)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia

Original position

Questionably Prototheria (Subclass) Gill, 1872

Subsequent entries

Ornithorhynchidae (Family) Gray, 1825

Current position

Prototheria (Subclass) Gill, 1872 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 35.

Alternative positions

Cloacalia ([unranked]) Ref: E.R. Lankester, 1877: 453.

Historical positions

Prototheria (Subclass) Gill, 1872 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 35.
Cloacalia ([unranked]) Ref: E.R. Lankester, 1877: 453.

Number of Subtaxa

1989-present Systema Naturae 2000 [1f;1g;1s;0ss; †3g]
1997 M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell [1f;1g; †3g]
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