Oreolagus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SinolagomyinaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Ochotonidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Ochotonidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 2.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 18.5 Mya to 16.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 29.5 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
32 occurrences of Oreolagus 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
32 occurrencesThese 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
10 formations
- Arikaree Formation10
- Runningwater Formation8
- Hepburn's Mesa Formation2
- Colter Formation2
- Pawnee Creek Formation1
- Cypress Hills Formation1
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The named rock units Oreolagus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Oreolagus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Oreolagus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
327 taxa- Mesoscalops scopelotemos16 sites
- Archaeolaginae13 sites
- Mioheteromyinae12 sites
- Brachyerix macrotis11 sites
- Geomyoidea11 sites
- Cynarctoides acridens10 sites
- Mesogaulus novellus9 sites
- Miospermophilus wyomingensis9 sites
- Protospermophilus kelloggi9 sites
- Equinae8 sites
- Mesogaulus paniensis8 sites
- Alphagaulus vetus7 sites
- Borophaginae7 sites
- Camelidae7 sites
- Gerrhonotus7 sites
- Parvericius montanus7 sites
- Perognathinae7 sites
- Schaubeumys sabrae7 sites
- Archaeolagus6 sites
- Ameiseophis robinsoni5 sites
- Brachycrus laticeps5 sites
- Charina prebottae5 sites
- Desmatolagus schizopetrus5 sites
- Harrymys irvini5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Oreolagus, 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- Miocene mammals of the Split Rock area, Granite Mountains basin, central Wyoming10
- Biostratigraphy and biochronology of early Arikareean through late Hemingfordian small mammal faunas from the Nebraska Panhandle and adjacent areas8
- The magnetochronology of Barstovian mammals in southwestern Montana and implications for the initiation of Neogene crustal extension in the northern Rocky Mountains2
- Arikareean, Hemingfordian, and Barstovian Mammals From the Miocene Colter Formation, Jackson Hole, Teton County, Wyoming2
- Lipotyphla, Chiroptera, Lagomorpha, and Rodentia (Mammalia) from Observation Quarry, Earliest Barstovian (Miocene), Dawes County, Nebraska1
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
- Rodents (Mammalia) from the Barstovian (Miocene) Anceney local fauna, Montana1
- New Land Snails (Archaeogastropoda, Helicinidae) from the Miocene (Early Barstovian) Flint Creek Beds of Western Montana1
- Mammals of the Topham Local Fauna: Early Miocene (Hemingfordian), Cypress Hills Formation, Saskatechewan1
- Rodents from the Zia Sand Miocene of New Mexico1
- Early Miocene mammals from the Lemhi Valley of Idaho1
- Oreolagus and other Lagomorpha (Mammalia) from the Miocene of Colorado, Wyoming, and Oregon1
Each of the 32 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 Oreolagus 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 Oreolagus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Oreolagus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSinolagomyinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dice 1917