Prolagus oeningensis
Extinct species of mammal
Prolagus oeningensis Temporal range: 15.97–7.75 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Prolagus oeningensis fossil | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Lagomorpha |
Family: | †Prolagidae |
Genus: | †Prolagus |
Species: | †P. oeningensis |
Binomial name | |
†Prolagus oeningensis König, 1825 | |
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Synonyms[3] | |
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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.
Range
The species has been found in various locations in Europe and Asia. It was named after the town of Öhningen in Germany, its type locality.[4]
Diet
This species was possibly a herbivore like other living lagomorphs.
Notes
- ^ The coordinates of additional fossils not listed in the xls file attached to Ge and all paper[1] were taken from the Paleobiology Database.[2][pdb 1][pdb 2][pdb 3][pdb 4][pdb 5][pdb 6]
References
- ^ a b Ge, Deyan; Wen, Zhixin; Xia, Lin; Zhang, Zhaoqun; Erbajeva, Margarita; Huang, Chengming; Yang, Qisen (April 3, 2013). "Evolutionary History of Lagomorphs in Response to Global Environmental Change". PLOS ONE. 8 (4:e59668): e59668. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...859668G. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0059668. PMC 3616043. PMID 23573205.
- ^ "The Paleobiology Database. †Prolagus oeningensis König 1825 (pika)". Retrieved 2015-03-12.
- ^ Wilson & Reeder's Mammal Species of the World. "Prolagus". Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Archived from the original on 2016-02-03. Retrieved 2015-08-04.
- ^ Boon-Kristkoiz, Ellen (2003). "Prolagus oeningensis (Lagomorpha, Mammalia) from the Middle Miocene of Mühlbach am Manhartsberg, Lower Austria" (PDF). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien. 104 A: 293–296.
Additional references of the Paleobiology Database
- ^ Antunes, M. T.; Mein, P. (1981). "Vertébrés du miocène moyen de amor (Leiria) - importance stratigraphique". Ciências da Terra (in French). 6: 169–188. [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/T. Liebrecht]
Paleobiology Database: Amor, point 1 ("premiere gisement" of Zbyszewski)", Amor, points 2 to 5 (Miocene of Portugal) - ^ Buffetaut, E.; Crouzel, F.; Juillard, F.; Stigliani, F. (1984). "Le crocodilien longirostre Gavialosuchus dans le Miocene moyen de Polastron (Gers, France)". Geobios (in French). 17 (1): 113–117. Bibcode:1984Geobi..17..113B. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(84)80009-1. [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
Paleobiology Database: Polastron (Miocene of France) - ^ Heissig, K. (1989). "Neue Ergebnisse zur Stratigraphie der mittleren Serie der Oberen Süßwassermolasse Bayerns (New results on the stratigraphy of the middle series of upper Freshwater Molasse, Bavaria)". Geologica Bavarica (in German). 94: 239–257. [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]
Paleobiology Database: Ziemetshausen 1b, 1a (Miocene of Germany) - ^ Ginsburg, L.; Bonneau, M. (1995). "La succession des faunes de mammiferes miocenes de Pontigne (Maine-et-Loire, France)". Bulletin de Musee national Histoire naturell (in French). 4 (2–4): 313–328. [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]Paleobiology Database: Pontigne 4 (marine) (Miocene of France) (les Buissoneaux)
- ^ Böttcher, R.; Heizmann, E. P. J.; Rasser, M. W; Ziegler, R. (2009). "Biostratigraphy and palaeoecology of a Middle Miocene (Karpathian, MN 5) fauna from the northern margin of the North Alpine Foreland Basin (Oggenhausen 2, SW' Germany)". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen. 254 (1/2): 237–260. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2009/0011. [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]
Paleobiology Database: Oggenhausen 2 (Miocene of Germany) - ^ Additional contributors to utilized records of Paleobiology Database (authorizers supplying these records) include Johannes Mueller, Philip Mannion, John Alroy, Mark Uhen.
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