Lagomorpha

The lagomorphs are the members of the taxonomic order Lagomorpha, of which there are two living families: the Leporidae and the Ochotonidae (pikas). There are 110 recent species of lagomorph, of which 109 species in twelve genera are extant, including ten genera of rabbits, one genus of hare, and one genus of pika ; and in which one monospecific genus is recently extinct, that of the Sardinian pika. Lagomorphs are found on every continent in the world except Antarctica, with several regions being host to introduced populations of European rabbits and European hares.

Lagomorpha

Gareth Rasberry · 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
DuplicidentataPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 3125 occurrencesEocene — about 173 of 3125 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 558 of 3125 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 910 of 3125 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 359 of 3125 occurrencesPleistocene — about 970 of 3125 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 5 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 10 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 11 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 11 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 13 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 35 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 70 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 153 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 88 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 69 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 93 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 109 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 96 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 70 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 78 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 131 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 140 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 123 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 97 occurrences10–8.1 Mya — about 90 occurrences8.1–6.0 Mya — about 104 occurrences6.0–4.0 Mya — about 197 occurrences4.0–2.0 Mya — about 326 occurrences2.0–0 Mya — about 1000 occurrences56 Mya11.7 ka60 Mya0 Mya

3,125 occurrences of Lagomorpha on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

3,125 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

308 formations

Hsanda Gol — 45.27°N, 101.77°EHsanda Gol — 45.29°N, 101.63°EHsanda Gol — 45.26°N, 101.72°EHsanda Gol — 45.30°N, 102.08°EHsanda Gol — 45.39°N, 101.24°EHsanda Gol — 45.45°N, 101.37°EHsanda Gol — 45.42°N, 101.26°EHsanda Gol — 45.49°N, 101.20°EHsanda Gol — 44.67°N, 97.53°EBrule — 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 — 46.40°N, 103.30°WBrule — 43.50°N, 101.90°WBrule — 41.50°N, 103.80°WBrule — 41.70°N, 103.10°WLoh — 45.31°N, 101.63°ELoh — 45.38°N, 101.10°ELoh — 45.26°N, 101.72°ELoh — 45.49°N, 101.20°ELoh — 45.50°N, 101.97°ELoh — 45.54°N, 101.01°ELoh — 45.35°N, 101.84°ELoh — 45.54°N, 101.14°EPalm Spring — 32.90°N, 117.10°W"unnamed sandstone" — 33.90°N, 117.00°WSharps — 43.30°N, 102.50°WValentine — 42.70°N, 100.00°WValentine — 42.49°N, 98.11°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WValentine — 42.80°N, 99.70°WValentine — 42.81°N, 100.05°WValentine — 40.02°N, 98.53°WValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WValentine — 42.60°N, 98.00°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°WRenova — 46.65°N, 113.05°WCypress Hills — 50.20°N, 107.60°WCypress Hills — 50.00°N, 107.90°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°WCypress Hills — 49.60°N, 109.00°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°WWhite River — 42.00°N, 104.20°WWhite River — 40.97°N, 106.22°WAsh Hollow — 42.39°N, 98.10°WAsh Hollow — 40.50°N, 100.50°WAsh Hollow — 42.70°N, 100.00°WAsh Hollow — 41.30°N, 101.89°WAsh Hollow — 42.80°N, 100.80°WAsh Hollow — 43.40°N, 100.60°WAsh Hollow — 41.20°N, 101.80°WAsh Hollow — 41.40°N, 102.40°WAsh Hollow — 42.30°N, 98.00°WAsh Hollow — 41.10°N, 103.00°WAsh Hollow — 42.63°N, 100.05°WAsh Hollow — 41.30°N, 105.10°WArikaree — 43.20°N, 108.20°WArikaree — 43.20°N, 107.10°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 — 43.30°N, 102.50°WChadron — 42.75°N, 103.65°WMR Caliente — 34.30°N, 119.00°WAral — 47.37°N, 60.87°EAral — 46.80°N, 60.58°EAral — 50.30°N, 57.18°EAral — 46.78°N, 60.50°EAral — 50.20°N, 66.80°EBarstow — 34.80°N, 117.00°WBarstow — 35.06°N, 117.08°WWood Mountain — 49.20°N, 106.20°WWood Mountain — 49.17°N, 105.99°WLower Freshwater Molasse — 46.88°N, 7.11°ERunningwater — 42.49°N, 102.96°WRunningwater — 42.80°N, 103.10°WRunningwater — 42.75°N, 102.00°WRunningwater — 42.70°N, 102.10°WRunningwater — 42.45°N, 102.96°WRunningwater — 42.20°N, 103.10°WRunningwater — 42.37°N, 103.32°WGlenns Ferry — 43.60°N, 116.80°WGlenns Ferry — 42.82°N, 114.94°WGlenns Ferry — 43.00°N, 118.00°WGlenns Ferry — 43.00°N, 115.70°WJohn Day — 44.67°N, 119.63°WJohn Day — 44.90°N, 120.20°WJohn Day — 44.90°N, 121.30°WJohn Day — 45.08°N, 119.87°WSt. David — 32.00°N, 110.20°WSt. David — 31.97°N, 110.30°WRexroad — 37.10°N, 100.90°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WRexroad — 37.13°N, 100.48°WSespe — 34.25°N, 118.96°WSespe — 33.83°N, 117.71°WSespe — 33.73°N, 117.72°WSespe — 33.59°N, 117.76°WSespe — 33.60°N, 117.61°W

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The named rock units Lagomorpha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 284 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1,508 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lagomorpha and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Lagomorpha and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,197 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,392 sites for Lagomorpha, and this reads 240 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

898 references

Each of the 3,125 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. 886 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 content2

Picture of Lagomorpha

Credit
Gareth Rasberry
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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.

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What may have been alongside itDuplicidentata through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brandt 1885)