Monotreme

Monotremes; Temporal range: Late Triassic – Holocene, 210–0 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
	A short-beaked echidna, a platypus, a Steropodon reconstruction, an a wastren lang-beaked echidna
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Cless:	Mammalia
Subcless:	Prototheria
Order:	Monotremata; C.L. Bonaparte, 1837
Subgroups
	†Kryoryctes?; †Steropodontidae; Platypoda Ornithorhynchidae; ; Tachyglossa Tachyglossidae; ;

Monotremes (frae the Greek μονός monos "single" + τρῆμα trema "hole", referrin tae the cloaca) are mammals that lay eggs (Prototheria) insteid o givin birth tae live young lik marsupials (Metatheria) an placental mammals (Eutheria).

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Monotremes^[2] Temporal range: Late Triassic^[1] – Holocene, 210–0 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N

A short-beaked echidna, a platypus, a Steropodon reconstruction, an a wastren lang-beaked echidna
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Cless:	Mammalia
Subcless:	Prototheria
Order:	Monotremata C.L. Bonaparte, 1837^[3]
Subgroups
†Kryoryctes? †Steropodontidae Platypoda Ornithorhynchidae Tachyglossa Tachyglossidae