Megalagus abaconis
No picture of Megalagus abaconis 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 Megalagus abaconis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MegalagusPBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 29.5 Mya and 18.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Megalagus abaconis 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 occurrencesThese 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 Megalagus abaconis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Megalagus abaconis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Megalagus abaconis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
41 taxa- Agnotocastor2 sites
- Entoptychidae2 sites
- Eomyidae2 sites
- Merycoidodontidae2 sites
- Miohippus2 sites
- Nothokemas waldropi2 sites
- Phlaocyon taylori2 sites
- Sciuridae2 sites
- Acheronictis webbi1 site
- Agassizia (Anisaster) mossomi1 site
- Alligator1 site
- Anolis1 site
- Arikarictis chapini1 site
- Centetodon1 site
- Centetodon magnus1 site
- Emballonuridae1 site
- Enhydrocyon pahinsintewakpa1 site
- Eublepharidae1 site
- Florentiamyidae1 site
- Heliscomyidae1 site
- Helodermatidae1 site
- Herpetotherium1 site
- Iguanidae1 site
- Iguaninae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Megalagus abaconis, 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
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Megalagus abaconis 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 Megalagus abaconis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Megalagus abaconis 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 itMegalagus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hayes 2000