Hypolagus gidleyi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HypolagusPBDB
- 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 most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 9.4 Mya and 1.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Hypolagus gidleyi on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
15 occurrences- Miocene23%
- Pliocene51%
- Pleistocene26%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Hypolagus gidleyi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hypolagus gidleyi and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Hypolagus gidleyi and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
144 taxa- Canis lepophagus4 sites
- Alilepus vagus3 sites
- Borophagus diversidens3 sites
- Hypolagus edensis3 sites
- Hypolagus furlongi3 sites
- Ondatra minor3 sites
- Plesiogulo marshalli3 sites
- Aphelops mutilus2 sites
- Astrohippus ansae2 sites
- Camelops2 sites
- Dinohippus interpolatus2 sites
- Equus2 sites
- Eucyon davisi2 sites
- Hemiauchenia macrocephala2 sites
- Lynx rufus2 sites
- Megalonyx leptostomus2 sites
- Megatylopus2 sites
- Megatylopus matthewi2 sites
- Mimomys taylori2 sites
- Mylagaulidae2 sites
- Nannippus lenticularis2 sites
- Neohipparion eurystyle2 sites
- Odocoileus2 sites
- Platygonus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Hypolagus gidleyi, 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
6 references- The Archaeolaginae (Mammalia, Lagomorpha) of North America, Excluding Archaeolagus and Panolax10
- Additional Late Cenozoic (latest Hemphillian to earliest Irvingtonian) mammals from Douglas County, Nevada1
- The Early Pleistocene (Latest Blancan-Earliest Irvingtonian) Froman Ferry Fauna and History of the Glenns Ferry Formation, Southwestern Idaho1
- Two Pliocene (Blancan) vertebrate faunas from Douglas County, Nevada1
- Plio-Pleistocene stratigraphy, paleoecology, and mammalian biochronology, Tijeras Arroyo, Albuquerque area, New Mexico1
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Each of the 15 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. 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 content1
Picture of Hypolagus gidleyi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Hypolagus gidleyi was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itHypolagus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. White 1988