Hesperolagomys niobrarensis
No picture of Hesperolagomys niobrarensis 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 Hesperolagomys niobrarensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HesperolagomysPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Ochotonidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Ochotonidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 3.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 16.3 Mya and 12.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Hesperolagomys niobrarensis 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
3 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
- Valentine Formation · Ogallala Group3
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The named rock units Hesperolagomys niobrarensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hesperolagomys niobrarensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Hesperolagomys niobrarensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
100 taxa- Aelurodon mcgrewi2 sites
- Carpocyon compressus2 sites
- Cynarctus saxatilis2 sites
- Glyptemys valentinensis2 sites
- Hypolagus fontinalis2 sites
- Hypolagus parviplicatus2 sites
- Pronotolagus albus2 sites
- Pterogaulus2 sites
- Aelurodon ferox1 site
- Aepycamelus robustus1 site
- Alilepus1 site
- Ambystoma minshalli1 site
- Amia1 site
- Amphicyonidae1 site
- Anchitheriinae1 site
- Anchitheriomys1 site
- Aphelops1 site
- Arctonasua1 site
- Bassariscus antiquus1 site
- Blastomeryx gemmifer valentinensis1 site
- Bufo valentinensis1 site
- Calippus1 site
- Calippus regulus1 site
- Chelydra1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Hesperolagomys niobrarensis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Hesperolagomys niobrarensis 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 Hesperolagomys niobrarensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hesperolagomys niobrarensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itHesperolagomys through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bair 2011