Hypolagus edensis

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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 least 4.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 9.4 Mya to 4.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 12.5 Mya to 1.4 Mya.
23 occurrences of Hypolagus edensis 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
23 occurrences- Miocene19%
- Pliocene53%
- Pleistocene28%
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
13 formations
- Temecula Arkose Formation3
- Glenns Ferry Formation3
- San Diego Formation2
- Palm Spring Formation2
- Kern River Formation1
- Mt. Eden Formation1
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The named rock units Hypolagus edensis 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.
Hypolagus edensis and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Hypolagus edensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
197 taxa- Perognathinae7 sites
- Camelidae5 sites
- Hypolagus vetus5 sites
- Canis lepophagus4 sites
- Dipodomys4 sites
- Equus4 sites
- Geomyidae4 sites
- Hypolagus furlongi4 sites
- Neotoma (Paraneotoma) fossilis4 sites
- Pewelagus dawsonae4 sites
- Plesippus simplicidens4 sites
- Taxidea4 sites
- Thomomys gidleyi4 sites
- Alilepus vagus3 sites
- Borophagus diversidens3 sites
- Dinohippus leidyanus3 sites
- Felinae3 sites
- Hemiauchenia3 sites
- Hypolagus gidleyi3 sites
- Megalonyx3 sites
- Neotoma3 sites
- Notiosorex3 sites
- Ondatra minor3 sites
- Perognathus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Hypolagus edensis, 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
9 references- The Archaeolaginae (Mammalia, Lagomorpha) of North America, Excluding Archaeolagus and Panolax10
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals3
- A review of the biostratigraphy of Pliocene and Pleistocene sediments in the Elsinore Fault Zone, Riverside County, California3
- Biostratigraphy of Blancan and Irvingtonian mammals in the Fish Creek-Vallecito Creek section, southern California, and a review of the Blancan-Irvingtonian boundary2
- Geology and mammalian paleontology of the Horned Toad Hills, Mojave Desert, California, USA1
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
- Biostratigraphy and Vertebrate Paleontology of the San Timoteo Badlands, Southern California1
- Late Tertiary basins and vertebrate faunas along the Nevada-Utah border1
- Extinct vertebrate faunas of the badlands of Bautista Creek and San Timoteo Canyon, southern California1
Each of the 23 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 edensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Hypolagus edensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Frick 1921