Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Synonym: Leporinorum Fischer de Waldheim 1817 [replaced name]
Full reference: G. Fischer de Waldheim. 1817. Adversaria zoologica. Memoires de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes du Moscou 5:357-428
Parent taxon: Lagomorpha according to H. Gadow 1898
See also Angelone et al. 2018, Bendukidze et al. 2009, Bonaparte 1850, Carroll 1988, Cope 1889, Dawson 1958, Flower 1883, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Gray 1821, Gray 1825, Hay 1902, Jaekel 1911, Johnson 1966, Korth et al. 2022, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Lambe 1908, Lofgren et al. 2020, Nowak 1991 and Shoshani et al. 1989
Sister taxa: Annalagus, Dawsonolagus, Ephemerolagus, Eurolagus, Ochotonidae, Ochotonolagus, Palaeolagidae, Shamolagus ninae, Strenulagidae, Strenulagus, Tsaganolagus
Subtaxa: Aluralagus Archaeolaginae Aztlanolagus Caviina Chadrolagus Dasyporcina Desmatolaginae Desmatolagus Dituberolagus Gobiolagus Hydrocharina Hypsimylus Lagomina Lagotherium Lepoides Leporina Leporinae Lushilagus Mytonolaginae Nekrolagus Nuralagus Ordolagus Palaeolaginae Paranotolagus Pewelagus Pliopentalagus Pronotolagus Sardolagus Shamolagus Sylvilagus Tachylagus Trischizolagus Veterilepus Zaissanolagus
Type: Lepus
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (2 collections), Australia (2), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Bolivia (1), Brazil (1), Canada (30: Alberta, British Columbia, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon), China (4), Colombia (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (2), Cote D'Ivoire (1), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (3), Egypt (13), Ethiopia (5), France (18), Georgia (2), Germany (8), Gibraltar (1), Greece (14), Greenland (21), Honduras (1), Hungary (19), Israel (4), Italy (32), Japan (3), Kenya (7), Libya (1), Mexico (13), Monaco (1), Morocco (7), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (2), Panama (1), Peru (5), Poland (1), Portugal (3), Reunion (1), Romania (16), the Russian Federation (5), South Africa (46), Spain (33), Sudan (4), Swaziland (3), Tanzania (5), Turkey (3), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (4), United States (315: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming), Venezuela (1), Zambia (2)
• Blancan of El Salvador (1), Greenland (1), Mexico (9), United States (143: Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Washington)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of France (1), Hungary (3), Indonesia (1), Italy (6), South Africa (3), Spain (1)
• Pliocene of Afghanistan (1), Austria (2), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), China (13), Egypt (1), Germany (1), Greece (4), Hungary (8), India (2), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (3), Kenya (3), Moldova (1), Morocco (1), Poland (3), Romania (6), the Russian Federation (3), Slovakia (3), South Africa (4), Spain (12), Tanzania (1), Turkey (2), Ukraine (4), United States (1: California)
• MN 13 of China (2), Greece (1)
• Hemphillian of Canada (1: Alberta), Mexico (6), United States (67: Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Ethiopia (1), Greece (3), Mongolia (1), South Africa (2), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Bulgaria (1), Canada (14: Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan), China (9), Greece (3), Italy (3), Kenya (3), Mexico (1), Moldova (4), Mongolia (4), Pakistan (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (3), Ukraine (3), United States (195: California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)
• Harrisonian of United States (15: California, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas)
• Arikareean of United States (26: California, Florida, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, Wyoming)
• Oligocene of Canada (5: Saskatchewan), China (16), France (1), Kazakhstan (9), Mongolia (57), United States (136: California, Colorado, Florida, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, Wyoming)
• Eocene to Oligocene of China (2), Mexico (1), United States (3: Nebraska, Wyoming)
• Eocene of Canada (11: British Columbia, Saskatchewan), China (15), Kyrgyzstan (1), Mongolia (5), United States (60: California, Colorado, Georgia, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 1621 collections including 2184 occurrences