Alilepus

Alilepus is an extinct genus of rabbit from the Miocene to Pliocene of North America and Eurasia. The type species is Alilepus annectens, which had previously been described as Lepus annectens in 1924. Alilepus may be a direct ancestor of the extant striped rabbit, Nesolagus.

No picture of Alilepus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Alilepus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LeporinaePBDB
Diet
grazer, browserPBDB, for Leporidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Leporidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 12.5 Mya to 1.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 16.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 20 of 42 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 13 of 42 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 8 of 42 occurrencesPleistocene17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.5–9.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences9.0–8.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.4–7.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.8–7.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.3–6.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.7–6.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.2–5.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.6–5.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.0–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–3.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.9–3.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.4–2.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.8–2.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.2–1.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.7–1.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.1–560 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences560 ka–0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12.5 Mya1.4 Mya16.8 Mya0 Mya

42 occurrences of Alilepus on record, most of them in the Miocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

42 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

16 formations

Glenns Ferry — 42.82°N, 114.94°WRingold — 47.00°N, 118.50°WSpilia — 41.15°N, 23.48°EAsh Hollow — 42.63°N, 100.05°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WTruckee — 39.50°N, 118.50°WGreen Valley — 37.81°N, 121.91°WGila Conglomerate — 32.58°N, 109.48°WCrooked Creek — 37.20°N, 100.30°WLong Pine — 42.38°N, 98.23°WLukeino — 0.50°N, 35.67°ELefkon — 41.17°N, 23.50°ENawata — 2.90°N, 36.05°EKhapry — 47.24°N, 39.71°EChersonian — 47.25°N, 28.69°EDhok Pathan — 33.63°N, 72.52°E

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The named rock units Alilepus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Alilepus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Alilepus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

872 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Alilepus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

26 references

Each of the 42 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 14 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Alilepus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Alilepus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Alilepus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itLeporinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dice 1931