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
Temporal range: 15.97–7.75 Ma Langhian - late Tortonian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Lagomorpha
Family: Ochotonidae
Genus: †Prolagus
Species:
†P. oeningensis
Binomial name
†Prolagus oeningensis
König, 1825
Prolagus oeningensis fossils distribution map.[1][n 1]
Synonyms
  • Prolagus aeningensis (König, 1825)
  • Lagomys (Cuvier, 1800)
  • Anoema (König, 1825)
  • Archaeomys (Fraas, 1856)
  • Myolagus (Hensel, 1856)[3]

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 in the Upper Freshwater Molasse.[4]

Diet

This species was possibly a herbivore like other living lagomorphs.

Notes
  1. 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
  1. 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. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0059668. PMC 3616043. PMID 23573205. Retrieved May 22, 2014. Table_S1.xls
  2. "The Paleobiology Database. †Prolagus oeningensis König 1825 (pika)". Retrieved 2015-03-12.
  3. Wilson & Reeder's Mammal Species of the World. "Prolagus". Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
  4. Ellen Boon-Kristkoiz (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
  1. Antunes, M. T.; Mein, P. (1981). "Vertébrés du miocène moyen de amor (Leiria) - importance stratigraphique". Ciências da Terra. 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)
  2. Buffetaut, E.; Crouzel, F.; Juillard, F.; Stigliani, F. (1984). "Le crocodilien longirostre Gavialosuchus dans le Miocene moyen de Polastron (Gers, France)". Geobios. 17 (1): 113–117. doi:10.1016/s0016-6995(84)80009-1. [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
    Paleobiology Database: Polastron (Miocene of France)
  3. 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. 94: 239–257. [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]
    Paleobiology Database: Ziemetshausen 1b, 1a (Miocene of Germany)
  4. Ginsburg, L.; Bonneau, M. (1995). "La succession des faunes de mammiferes miocenes de Pontigne (Maine-et-Loire, France)". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 4 (2–4): 313–328. [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]Paleobiology Database: Pontigne 4 (marine) (Miocene of France) (les Buissoneaux)
  5. 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)
  6. 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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