Litolagus molidens
No picture of Litolagus molidens was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Litolagus molidens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LitolagusPBDB
- 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 most 2.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 31.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Litolagus molidens on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Litolagus molidens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Litolagus molidens and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Litolagus molidens and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Hyaenodon crucians2 sites
- Hyaenodon horridus2 sites
- Hypertragulus calcaratus2 sites
- Ischyromys2 sites
- Leptictis dakotensis2 sites
- Megalagus turgidus2 sites
- Merycoidodon culbertsonii2 sites
- Miniochoerus chadronensis2 sites
- Palaeogale sectoria2 sites
- Palaeolagus haydeni2 sites
- Paratylopus labiatus2 sites
- Poebrotherium eximium2 sites
- Poebrotherium wilsoni2 sites
- Willeumys viduus2 sites
- Hesperocyon gregarius1 site
- Leptauchenia decora1 site
- Leptomeryx evansi1 site
- Leptomeryx speciosus1 site
- Palaeolagus intermedius1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Litolagus molidens, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Litolagus molidens was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Litolagus molidens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Litolagus molidens was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
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What may have been alongside itLitolagus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dawson 1958