Megalibgwilia owenii Krefft, 1868
Owen's echidna (proposed)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Echidna owenii Krefft, 1868; Echidna oweni Krefft, 1868; Tachyglossus oweni Krefft, 1868; Megalibgwilia ramsayi Owen, 1884; [i]Echidna robusta[/i] Dun, 1895; [i]Zaglossus robusta[/i] Dun, 1895; [i]Proechidna robusta[/i] Dun, 1895
Conservation Status
Last recorded from the Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Australia (incl. New South Wales & Tasmania)
Biology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Krefft, Gerard. (1868). On the discovery of a new and gigantic fossil species of Echidna in Australia. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1: 113-114.
Other references:
Glauert, Ludwig. (1914). The mammoth cave (continued). Records of the Western Australian Museum 1: 244-251.
Helge, Kristofer M., Miguez, Roberto Portela, Kohen, James L. and Helgen, Lauren E. (2012). Twentieth century occurrence of the Long-Beaked Echidna Zaglossus bruijnii in the Kimberley region of Australia. Zookeys (255): 103-132.
Murray, P. F. (1978). A Pleistocene spiny anteater from Tasmania (Monotremata: Tachyglossidae, Zaglossus). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 112: 39-67.
Stephenson, N. G. (1963). Growth gradients among fossil monotremes and marsupials. Palaeontology 6(4): 615-624.