Zaglossus hacketti Fossil range: Pleistocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Monotremata
Family:	Tachyglossidae
Genus:	Zaglossus
Species:	†Z. hacketti
Binomial name
Zaglossus hacketti Glauert, 1914

Zaglossus hacketti is an extinct species of long-beaked echidna from the Pleistocene of Western Australia. It is known only from a few bones found in Western Australia. It was the size of a sheep, weighing probably up to 100 kg (220 lb). Due the lack of cranial material placement of Z. hacketti into the modern long-beaked echidna genus is uncertain Zaglossus.^[1]

[edit] References

• Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution by John A. Long, Michael Archer, Timothy Flannery, and Suzanne Hand (page 107)
• Echidna: Extraordinary Egg-Laying Mammal (Australian Natural History Series) by Michael Augee, Brett Gooden, and Anne Musser (page 18)

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