Oreolagus nebrascensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OreolagusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Ochotonidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Ochotonidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 18.5 Mya and 12.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
22 occurrences of Oreolagus nebrascensis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
22 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
5 formations
- Arikaree Formation10
- Runningwater Formation8
- Cypress Hills Formation1
- Zia Sand Formation1
- Sheep Creek Formation1
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The named rock units Oreolagus nebrascensis 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.
Oreolagus nebrascensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Oreolagus nebrascensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
220 taxa- Mesoscalops scopelotemos16 sites
- Brachyerix macrotis11 sites
- Cynarctoides acridens9 sites
- Geomyoidea9 sites
- Mesogaulus novellus9 sites
- Miospermophilus wyomingensis9 sites
- Protospermophilus kelloggi9 sites
- Alphagaulus vetus7 sites
- Archaeolaginae7 sites
- Borophaginae7 sites
- Gerrhonotus7 sites
- Mesogaulus paniensis7 sites
- Mioheteromyinae7 sites
- Parvericius montanus7 sites
- Schaubeumys sabrae7 sites
- Archaeolagus6 sites
- Ameiseophis robinsoni5 sites
- Desmatolagus schizopetrus5 sites
- Equinae5 sites
- Harrymys irvini5 sites
- Harrymys magnus5 sites
- Merycodus sabulonis5 sites
- Proheteromys5 sites
- Protolabis heterodontus5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Oreolagus nebrascensis, 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
6 references- Miocene mammals of the Split Rock area, Granite Mountains basin, central Wyoming10
- Biostratigraphy and biochronology of early Arikareean through late Hemingfordian small mammal faunas from the Nebraska Panhandle and adjacent areas8
- Lipotyphla, Chiroptera, Lagomorpha, and Rodentia (Mammalia) from Observation Quarry, Earliest Barstovian (Miocene), Dawes County, Nebraska1
- Mammals of the Topham Local Fauna: Early Miocene (Hemingfordian), Cypress Hills Formation, Saskatechewan1
- Rodents from the Zia Sand Miocene of New Mexico1
- A new Miocene lagomorph1
Each of the 22 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. 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
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No picture of Oreolagus nebrascensis 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 Oreolagus nebrascensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Oreolagus nebrascensis 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.
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What may have been alongside itOreolagus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McGrew 1941