What is Megalibgwilia?
{{Taxobox | name = ''Megalibgwilia'' |fossil_range= [[Miocene]] - Upper [[Pleistocene]] | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | classis = [[Mammal]]ia | ordo = [[Monotremata]] | familia = [[Tachyglossidae]] | genus = '''''Megalibgwilia''''' |genus_authority = Griffiths, Wells and Barrie, 1991 | subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = †''M. ramsayi''<small> ([[Richard Owen|Owen]], 1884)</small><br/> †''M. robusta''<small> ([[William Sutherland Dun|Dun]], 1896)</small> }} '''''Megalibgwilia''''' is a [[genus]] of [[echidna]] only known from fossils from [[Australia]], it contains the oldest known echidna species. == References == * Long, J., Archer, M., Flannery, T. and Hand, S. 2002. ''Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution''. [[Johns Hopkins University]] Press. pp 45–47. {{ISBN|0801872235}} * Griffiths, M., Wells, R.T., and Barrie, D.J. 1991. Observations on the skulls of fossil and [[extant]] echidnas (Monotremata:Tachyglossidae),. ''Australian Mammalology'' 14:87-101 {{wikispecies|Megalibgwilia}} [[Category:Monotremes]]