Lepus capensis

The Cape hare, also called the brown hare and the desert hare, is a hare native to Africa and Arabia extending into India.

Lepus capensis

Haplochromis · 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
Also called
cape harePBDB
Sits inside
LepusPBDB
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 2.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 0 of 43 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 43 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 34 of 43 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 8 of 43 occurrences7.5–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.7–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.2–5.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.2–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.6–4.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.4–4.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.9–3.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.1–1.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.5–1.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.3–1.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.0–775 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences775 ka–516 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences516 ka–258 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences258 ka–0 Mya — about 14 occurrences2.58 Mya11.7 ka7.7 Mya0 Mya

43 occurrences of Lepus capensis 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

43 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

6 formations

Shungura — 5.08°N, 36.03°EShungura — 5.01°N, 36.00°ENubia — 22.88°N, 30.64°ENubia — 22.50°N, 30.75°EGabal Silsila — 24.77°N, 32.95°ENachukui — 4.27°N, 35.82°EGebel Silsila-YCS — 24.50°N, 33.00°EVarswater — 32.96°S, 18.11°E

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The named rock units Lepus capensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lepus capensis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Lepus capensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

441 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Lepus capensis, 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

30 references

Each of the 43 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. 18 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 content3

Picture of Lepus capensis

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

CT scan

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not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Lepus capensis · nml:19.8.1875.29

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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CC Attribution
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Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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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 itLepus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758