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From: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: What's a monotreme?
Keywords: monotremes
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Date: 30 Apr 91 01:03:27 GMT
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In article <2347@cluster.cs.su.oz.au> andrewt writes:
>The 110 million year date is correct (see Nature 318:363-366). Also in 1985
>a 15 million year old platypus skull (Obdurodon dicksoni) was found at
>the Riversleigh site in Northern Queensland. Hopefully Riversleigh will
>yield more platypus fossils.

Thanks for the citation. I may even remember to look it up.
[I am rather on the absent minded side].

I believe that the Riversleigh fossil was one of the 'sub-recent' fossils
I had already heard about.  (Well perhaps not quite sub-recent, but at
least Neogene).

The field of paleontology is really popping.  It is getting really hard to
keep up.   Have you head about some of the incredible dinosaur finds of
the last two years?


By the way, does anyone know of a reliable mail gateway into Australia?
I have yet to successfully get any mail through (the gateway I always get
claims not to do international mail).

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