Suborder Platypoda Gill 1872 (monotreme)
Parent taxon: Monotremata according to M. C. McKenna 1975
Sister taxa: Echidnidae, Hadrocodium, Kollikodontidae, Kryoryctes, Ornithorhynchidae, Steropodontidae, Tachyglossa, Tachyglossidae
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: scansorial insectivore