Palaeolagus haydeni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PalaeolagusPBDB
- 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 6.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37 Mya to 18.5 Mya.
60 occurrences of Palaeolagus haydeni 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
60 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
7 formations
- Brule Formation · White River Group47
- Chadron Formation3
- Renova Formation2
- John Day Formation2
- White River Formation1
- Sage Creek Formation1
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The named rock units Palaeolagus haydeni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Palaeolagus haydeni and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Palaeolagus haydeni and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
312 taxa- Leptomeryx evansi26 sites
- Hesperocyon gregarius25 sites
- Megalagus turgidus25 sites
- Ischyromys typus22 sites
- Hypertragulus calcaratus20 sites
- Merycoidodon culbertsonii16 sites
- Mesohippus bairdi16 sites
- Altasciurus relictus15 sites
- Eumys elegans15 sites
- Daphoenus13 sites
- Palaeolagus burkei13 sites
- Poebrotherium wilsoni13 sites
- Adjidaumo minutus12 sites
- Hyaenodon crucians12 sites
- Miniochoerus gracilis11 sites
- Hyracodon nebraskensis10 sites
- Ischyromys10 sites
- Archaeotherium mortoni9 sites
- Leptictis dakotensis9 sites
- Palaeolagus intermedius9 sites
- Paradjidaumo trilophus9 sites
- Stibarus obtusilobus9 sites
- Herpetotherium fugax8 sites
- Hesperocyon8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 60 sites for Palaeolagus haydeni, 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
20 references- Lagomorphs (Mammalia) from the Oligocene (Orellan and Whitneyan) Brule Formation, Nebraska23
- Elocene-Oligocene climatic change in North America: The White River Formation near Douglass, East-Central Wyoming5
- Preliminary biostratigraphy of the White River Group (Oligocene, Chadron and Brule formations) in the vicinity of Chadron, Nebraska5
- Magnetostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Eocene-Oligocene transition, southwestern Montana3
- Geology and paleontology of the Oligocene Harris Ranch Badlands, southwestern South Dakota3
- Analysis of the Preservation of Community Structure in Assemblages of Fossil Mammals3
- Eocene-Oligocene faunas of the Cypress Hills Formation, Saskatchewan2
- Vertebrate fossil record, age, and paleoenvironmental setting of the Brule Formation (Oligocene) in North Dakota2
- Paleoecology of the Lower Nodular Zone, Brule Formation, in the Big Badlands of South Dakota2
- Fossil mammals of the Lower Miocene White River beds. Collection of 18922
- Fossil mammals from ant mounds situated on exposures of the Big Cottonwood Creek Member of the Chadron Formation (latest Eocene - Early Oligocene), Sioux County, Nebraska1
- Description of an Earliest Orellan Fauna From Badlands National Park, Interior, South Dakota and Implications for the Stratigraphic Position of the Bloom Basin Limestone Bed1
Each of the 60 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. 8 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 content1
Picture of Palaeolagus haydeni
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- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Palaeolagus haydeni 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 itPalaeolagus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leidy 1856