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Platypus a living fossil?

(Bill Adlam writes):
>I don't feel Ornithorhynchus qualifies as a living fossil:

The platypus is only a living fossil in so much as some believe
that it and the Spiny Anteater are the last surviving therapsids
(Does anyone have an opinion on this?  I always regarded them as
mammals myself).

                     -- Dave