Megalagus turgidus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MegalagusPBDB
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 2.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 31.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37 Mya to 29.5 Mya.

Eocene — about 7 of 40 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 33 of 40 occurrencesOligocene37–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 4 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 4 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 4 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 4 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 4 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 4 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 4 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33.9 Mya31.8 Mya37.5 Mya29 Mya

40 occurrences of Megalagus turgidus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

40 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

5 formations

Brule — 42.90°N, 105.20°WBrule — 40.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 43.30°N, 102.50°WBrule — 42.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 43.20°N, 103.20°WBrule — 43.90°N, 102.40°WBrule — 42.40°N, 103.80°WCypress Hills — 49.80°N, 109.00°WCypress Hills — 49.70°N, 109.00°WCypress Hills — 49.60°N, 108.80°WCypress Hills — 49.57°N, 109.88°WChadron — 42.90°N, 105.20°WChadron — 43.30°N, 102.50°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WSage Creek — 45.00°N, 112.80°W

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The named rock units Megalagus turgidus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Megalagus turgidus and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Megalagus turgidus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

249 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Megalagus turgidus, 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

14 references

Each of the 40 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. 2 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

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No picture of Megalagus turgidus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cope 1873)