Palaeolagus

Palaeolagus is an extinct genus of lagomorph. Palaeolagus lived during the Eocene and Oligocene epochs of North America.

Palaeolagus

Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalaeolaginaePBDB
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 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 23.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 39.7 Mya to 16.3 Mya.

Eocene — about 50 of 241 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 182 of 241 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 8 of 241 occurrencesMiocene40–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–36 Mya — about 13 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 13 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 13 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 19 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 38 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 38 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 19 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 9 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 9 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 9 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 8 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 8 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 9 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 9 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 9 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33.9 Mya23.1 Mya40.2 Mya15.8 Mya

241 occurrences of Palaeolagus 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

241 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

19 formations

Brule — 42.90°N, 105.20°WBrule — 42.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 40.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 43.30°N, 102.50°WBrule — 46.90°N, 102.80°WBrule — 43.90°N, 102.40°WBrule — 42.40°N, 103.80°WBrule — 43.20°N, 103.20°WBrule — 42.00°N, 104.20°WBrule — 43.85°N, 102.50°WBrule — 43.50°N, 101.90°WBrule — 46.40°N, 103.30°WBrule — 41.50°N, 103.80°WBrule — 41.70°N, 103.10°WSharps — 43.30°N, 102.50°WRenova — 45.00°N, 112.80°WRenova — 45.20°N, 112.00°WRenova — 46.00°N, 112.00°WRenova — 45.90°N, 112.25°WRenova — 46.40°N, 112.80°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWhite River — 40.80°N, 103.10°WWhite River — 41.80°N, 107.00°WChadron — 42.40°N, 103.80°WChadron — 42.80°N, 103.10°WChadron — 42.80°N, 103.40°WChadron — 42.90°N, 105.20°WChadron — 45.47°N, 112.62°WChadron — 46.10°N, 103.30°WChadron — 42.75°N, 103.65°WGering — 41.70°N, 103.10°WCypress Hills — 49.57°N, 109.88°WCypress Hills — 49.80°N, 109.00°WCypress Hills — 49.70°N, 109.00°WCypress Hills — 49.60°N, 108.80°WCook Ranch — 45.00°N, 112.80°WJohn Day — 44.70°N, 119.63°WHarrison — 42.00°N, 104.20°WSage Creek — 45.00°N, 112.80°WPaha Sapa Limestone — 43.90°N, 102.40°WOtay — 32.90°N, 117.10°WMonroe Creek — 43.30°N, 102.50°WPeterson Creek Beds — 45.00°N, 113.60°WClimbing Arrow — 45.93°N, 111.62°WDunbar Creek — 45.70°N, 111.00°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.28°WClinchfield — 32.91°N, 83.36°W

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The named rock units Palaeolagus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 39 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeolagus and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Palaeolagus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

828 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 191 sites for Palaeolagus, 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

60 references

Each of the 241 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. 48 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 content3

Picture of Palaeolagus

Credit
Didier Descouens
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Palaeolagus haydeni · FHSM:vp:238

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
person
Licence
CC Attribution
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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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPalaeolaginae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leidy 1856