Dharragarra Temporal range: Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian),
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Monotremata |
Family: | Ornithorhynchidae (?) |
Genus: | †Dharragarra Flannery, 2024 |
Species: | †D. aurora
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Binomial name | |
†Dharragarra aurora |
Dharragarra (meaning "platypus" in the Gamilaraay language) is an extinct genus of monotreme mammal from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Griman Creek Formation of Australia. The genus contains a single species, D. aurora, known from a partial left mandibular ramus. Dharragarra was likely more closely related to the living platypus than many other monotremes of the Cretaceous.