Lagorchestes hirsutus

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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- Also called
- rufous hare-wallabyPBDB
- Sits inside
- LagorchestesPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Macropodidae
- Life habit
- saltatorialPBDB, for Lagorchestes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Lagorchestes hirsutus 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
4 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Lagorchestes hirsutus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Lagorchestes hirsutus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Macropus4 sites
- Bettongia3 sites
- Dasycercus cristicauda3 sites
- Leporillus conditor3 sites
- Macrotis lagotis3 sites
- Antechinomys2 sites
- Bettongia lesueur2 sites
- Bettongia penicillata2 sites
- Dasyurus2 sites
- Diprotodon optatum2 sites
- Leggandina hermannsburgensis2 sites
- Leporillus2 sites
- Macropus (Macropus) giganteus2 sites
- Onychogalea2 sites
- Perameles2 sites
- Phascogale calura2 sites
- Protemnodon brehus2 sites
- Pseudomys2 sites
- Trichosurus vulpecula2 sites
- Aves1 site
- Caloprymnus campestris1 site
- Cercartetus concinnus1 site
- Crocodyloidea1 site
- Crocodylus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Lagorchestes hirsutus, 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
3 references- Vertebrate remains from the Nullarbor caves, Western Australia2
- Investigating human and megafauna co-occurrence in Australian prehistory: Mode and causality in fossil accumulations at Cuddie Springs1
- Fossiliferous deposits at Lake Tandou, New South Wales, Australia1
Each of the 4 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 Lagorchestes hirsutus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Lagorchestes hirsutus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLagorchestes through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gould 1844