Leporidae

Leporidae is the family of rabbits and hares (Lepus), containing over 70 species of extant mammals in all. Together with the pikas, the Leporidae constitute the mammalian order Lagomorpha. Leporidae differ from pikas in that they have short, furry tails and elongated ears and hind legs.

Leporidae

Steve Sayles from Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
Also called
rabbitPBDB
Sits inside
LagomorphaPBDB
Diet
grazer, browserPBDB
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 2232 occurrencesEocene — about 157 of 2232 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 432 of 2232 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 390 of 2232 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 261 of 2232 occurrencesPleistocene — about 841 of 2232 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–46 Mya — about 5 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 9 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 9 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 9 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 11 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 35 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 65 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 139 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 88 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 59 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 59 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 59 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 42 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 17 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 17 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 34 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 46 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 48 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 49 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 54 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 51 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 60 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 139 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 261 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 866 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

2,232 occurrences of Leporidae 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

2,232 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

252 formations

Brule — 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°WHsanda 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°EPalm Spring — 32.90°N, 117.10°W"unnamed sandstone" — 33.90°N, 117.00°WSharps — 43.30°N, 102.50°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°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 — 40.97°N, 106.22°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°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°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°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°WBarstow — 34.80°N, 117.00°WBarstow — 35.06°N, 117.08°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°WArikaree — 43.20°N, 108.20°WArikaree — 43.20°N, 107.10°WLoh — 45.31°N, 101.63°ELoh — 45.38°N, 101.10°ELoh — 45.26°N, 101.72°ELoh — 45.49°N, 101.20°ETemecula Arkose — 33.90°N, 117.00°WSan Timoteo — 33.90°N, 117.00°WPauba — 33.90°N, 117.00°WGering — 41.70°N, 103.10°WWood Mountain — 49.20°N, 106.20°WWood Mountain — 49.17°N, 105.99°W

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The named rock units Leporidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 228 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1,029 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Leporidae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Leporidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,262 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,450 sites for Leporidae, 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

702 references

Each of the 2,232 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. 690 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 content1

Picture of Leporidae

Credit
Steve Sayles from Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, Canada
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Leporidae 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.

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 itLagomorpha through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fischer de Waldheim 1817