NON-AUSSIE MONOTREMES

["Darren Naish" <dwn194@soton.ac.uk>]

In the ongoing monotreme-MTB discussion, Pieter Depuydt wrote..

> So to summarize things, there are currently four Monotreme 'families' 
> known: the platypi (Ornithorynchidae), represented by the extant 
> Ornithorynchus, and some fossil relatives, one of these from the 
> Palaeocene of Patagonia, South America (the ONLY monotreme from 
> outside Australia AFAIK); 

You should have written 'outside Australasia', as tachyglossids are known from
New Guinea. _Zaglossus_ is still there today, and there was a giant montane
species there in the Pleistocene.

If anyone out there gets BBC Radio Solent, listen tomorrow (Saturday) at 10-
30 AM: I'll be talking about dinosaurs. 

DARREN NAISH