Hesperolagomys
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OchotonidaePBDB
- 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 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
21 occurrences of Hesperolagomys 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
21 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
9 formations
- Valentine Formation · Ogallala Group7
- Ash Hollow Formation · Ogallala Group3
- Wood Mountain Formation1
- Juntura Formation1
- Esmeralda Formation1
- Salt Lake Formation1
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The named rock units Hesperolagomys 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.
Hesperolagomys and its relatives
MioceneWhere Hesperolagomys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
417 taxa- Eucastor tortus10 sites
- Untermannerix copiosus10 sites
- Metechinus amplior9 sites
- Mystipterus9 sites
- Parvericius montanus9 sites
- Copemys longidens8 sites
- Cupidinimus nebraskensis8 sites
- Perognathus trojectioansrum8 sites
- Russellagus vonhofi8 sites
- Hypolagus parviplicatus7 sites
- Mylagaulidae7 sites
- Scalopoides7 sites
- Archaeolaginae6 sites
- Domninoides valentinensis6 sites
- Leptocyon vafer6 sites
- Lignimus montis6 sites
- Marmotini6 sites
- Megasminthus tiheni6 sites
- Sceloporus6 sites
- Teleoceras6 sites
- Aelurodon ferox5 sites
- Blastomeryx gemmifer5 sites
- Bufo valentinensis5 sites
- Crocodylia5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Hesperolagomys, 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
11 references- Description of a new species of the North American archaic pika Hesperolagomys (Lagomorpha: Ochotonidae) from the middle Miocene (Barstovian) of Nebraska and reassessment of the genus Hesperolagomys8
- Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Ogallala Group in Nebraska4
- A preliminary report of a new Clarendonian (Late Miocene) mammalian fauna from northwestern Utah1
- Road Log Neogene geology of the Española Basin, New Mexico1
- Miocene biostratigraphy and biochronology of the Dove Spring Formation, Mojave Desert, California, and characterization of the Clarendonian mammal age (late Miocene) in California1
- Vertebrate paleontology of the proposed Norden Reservoir Area, Brown, Cherry and Keya Paha counties, Nebraska1
- Origin and History of the Erinaceinae and Brachyericinae (Mammalia, Insectivora) in North America1
- A contribution to the mammalian paleontology of the Ogallala group of South-Central South Dakota1
- Pliocene mammals of southeast Oregon and adjacent Idaho1
- New rodents and lagomorphs from the upper Miocene Wood Mountain Formation of southern Saskatchewan1
- Fossil mammals from the lower Pliocene of Fish Lake Valley, Nevada1
Each of the 21 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
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No picture of Hesperolagomys 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, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hesperolagomys 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 itOchotonidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Clark et al. 1964