Oligolagus welleri
No picture of Oligolagus welleri 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 Oligolagus welleri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OligolagusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Lagomorpha
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Lagomorpha
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 29.5 Mya and 18.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Oligolagus welleri 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
1 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 Oligolagus welleri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Oligolagus welleri and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Oligolagus welleri and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Apeomys catahoulaensis1 site
- Corumictis1 site
- Daeodon1 site
- Diceratherium1 site
- Downsimus rainsi1 site
- Elomeryx1 site
- Eutypomys1 site
- Herpetotherium1 site
- Hesperopetes1 site
- Hypertragulus minutus1 site
- Kirkomys nebraskensis1 site
- Leptochoerus1 site
- Leptodontomys1 site
- Leptomeryx1 site
- Mesoscalops irwini1 site
- Microtheriomys brevirhinus1 site
- Miohippus1 site
- Paraktioeomys palmeri1 site
- Phlaocyon taylori1 site
- Promartes1 site
- Prosynthetoceras orthrionanus1 site
- Protapirus simplex1 site
- Sinclairella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Oligolagus welleri, 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 1 occurrence 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 Oligolagus welleri 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 Oligolagus welleri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Oligolagus welleri 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 itOligolagus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Albright et al. 2026