Lagomorpha

Searched as Lagomorpha indet.. The Paleobiology Database treats Lagomorpha as the accepted name.

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 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 1 of 78 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 78 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 78 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 48 of 78 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 78 occurrencesPleistocene — about 9 of 78 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 4 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 5 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 6 occurrences10–8.1 Mya — about 9 occurrences8.1–6.0 Mya — about 11 occurrences6.0–4.0 Mya — about 9 occurrences4.0–2.0 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.0–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences56 Mya129 ka60 Mya0 Mya

78 occurrences of Lagomorpha on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

78 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

26 formations

Lower Freshwater Molasse — 46.88°N, 7.11°EVarswater — 32.96°S, 18.11°EVarswater — 33.67°S, 18.43°EValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WFleming — 30.61°N, 95.13°WFleming — 31.10°N, 93.10°WKizilirmak — 40.30°N, 34.05°EBrule — 43.30°N, 102.50°WWhite River — 42.00°N, 104.20°WAlachua — 29.65°N, 82.60°WWood Mountain — 49.20°N, 106.20°WArikaree — 43.20°N, 108.20°WSan Diego — 32.90°N, 117.10°WLukeino — 0.50°N, 35.67°ENachukui — 3.08°N, 35.83°ESwartkrans — 26.02°S, 27.72°EVogel River Series — 3.22°S, 35.21°ENaran Bulak — 43.47°N, 100.38°ETriglia — 40.03°N, 23.47°EShara Murum — 42.04°N, 111.53°ECambay Shale — 21.40°N, 73.08°EChaganbulage — 38.83°N, 105.67°EPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.90°WTudela — 42.01°N, 1.38°WGonia — 40.51°N, 22.84°EUinta — 40.08°N, 109.27°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. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 42 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lagomorpha and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lagomorpha and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

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

46 references

Each of the 78 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. 34 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 MioceneThe world it lived on

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