Prolagus oeningensis

Prolagus oeningensis is an extinct lagomorph and the type species of its genus, Prolagus. It lived from 15.97 to 7.75 Ma, existing for about 8 million years.

Prolagus oeningensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProlagusPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Ochotonidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Ochotonidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 7.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 8.725 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 55 occurrencesMiocene — about 55 of 55 occurrencesMiocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 7 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 7 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 7 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 6 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences10–9.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.5–9.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.0–8.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.4–7.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.9–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15.98 Mya8.725 Mya23.5 Mya6.7 Mya

55 occurrences of Prolagus oeningensis 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

55 occurrences

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

Upper Freshwater Molasse — 48.15°N, 9.88°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.66°N, 10.23°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.09°N, 10.03°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.16°N, 10.11°EChâteauredon — 44.02°N, 6.22°ELower Bone Bed — 39.25°N, 8.68°WBrackwater Molasse — 48.48°N, 10.10°EAlcácer do Sal — 38.38°N, 8.52°W

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The named rock units Prolagus oeningensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 46 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Prolagus oeningensis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Prolagus oeningensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

734 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 52 sites for Prolagus oeningensis, 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

29 references

Each of the 55 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. 17 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 Prolagus oeningensis

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H. Zell
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CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Prolagus oeningensis 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itProlagus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (König 1825)