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Palaeolagus ✝

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Palaeolagus ('ancient hare') is an extinct genus of lagomorph. Palaeolagus lived in the Oligocene period which was about 33-23 million years ago. The earliest leporids described from the fossil record of North America and Asia date to the upper Eocene some 40 million years ago.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeolagus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4825761	https://www.gbif.org/species/4825761
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	42184	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=42184

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Lagomorpha : Leporidae : Palaeolagus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
-	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
-	Glires
-	Duplicidentata
order	Lagomorpha	Brandt 1885
family	Leporidae	Fischer de Waldheim 1817
subfamily	Palaeolaginae	Dice 1929
genus	Palaeolagus	Leidy 1856

Scientific Name

Palaeolagus Leidy, 1856

Name Published In

Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 8

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Palaeolagus	genus	belongs to Leporidae	stated without evidence	Leidy, 1856
Palaeolagus	genus	belongs to Glires	stated without evidence	Cope, 1891
Palaeolagus	genus	belongs to Leporidae	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Palaeolagus	genus	belongs to Palaeolaginae	stated with evidence	Dawson, 1958
Palaeolagus	genus	belongs to Leporidae	stated without evidence	Johnson, 1966
Palaeolagus	genus	belongs to Leporidae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

40.4 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Last Recorded Appearance

24.8 - 16.0 Ma
Cenozoic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

grazer, browser (based on Leporidae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. Leidy. 1856. Notice of remains of extinct Mammalia, discovered by Dr. F. V. Hayden in Nebraska Territory. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 8:88-90

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeolagus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Palaeolagus burkei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	27	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.3 Ma Oligocene
Palaeolagus haydeni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	58	37.2 Ma Eocene	30.8 Ma Oligocene
Palaeolagus hemirhizis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	14	37.2 Ma Eocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Palaeolagus hypsodus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	27	30.8 Ma Oligocene	30.8 Ma Oligocene
Palaeolagus intermedius ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	16	37.2 Ma Eocene	33.3 Ma Oligocene
Palaeolagus philoi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	29	30.8 Ma Oligocene	26.3 Ma Oligocene
Palaeolagus primus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Palaeolagus temnodon ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	35	38.0 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Tricium agapetilla ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Tricium annae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Paleolagus	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Lagomorpha : Leporidae : *Paleolagus*
Protolagus Walker, 1931	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Lagomorpha : Leporidae : *Protolagus*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1856	Palaeolagus Leidy
1873	Tricium Cope
1891	Palaeolagus Cope p. 5
1902	Palaeolagus Hay p. 735
1908	Palaeolagus Lambe
1931	Protolagus Walker
1958	Palaeolagus Dawson p. 19
1966	Palaeolagus Johnson p. 80
1997	Palaeolagus McKenna and Bell

References

Leidy J. Notice of remains of extinct Mammalia, discovered by Dr. F. V. Hayden in Nebraska Territory, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 8, 88-90

Cope E. D. On vertebrata from the Tertiary and Cretaceous rocks of the North West Territory: The species from the Oligocene or Lower Miocene beds of the Cypress Hills, Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology 3, 1-25

Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868

Lambe L. M. (1908) The Vertebrata of the Oligocene of the Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan, Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology 3 4, 1-65 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61444

Dawson M. R. (1958) Later Tertiary Leoporidae of North America, University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions Vertebrata 6, 1-75

Johnson G. D. (1966) Small mammals of the Middle Oligocene of the Big Badlands of South Dakota, Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Sciences 45, 78-83

McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 8 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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