Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Synonyms: Desmatolagus parvidens Bohlin 1937, Desmatolagus radicidens Teilhard de Chardin 1926, Desmatolagus shargaltensis Bohlin 1937, Procaprolagus mongolicus Gureev 1960, Procaprolagus orlovi Gureev 1960, Sinolagomys tatalgolicus Gureev 1960
Full reference: W. D. Matthew and W. Granger. 1923. Nine new rodents from the Oligocene of Mongolia. American Museum Novitates 102:1-10
Belongs to Desmatolagus according to J. Meng et al. 2005
See also Erbajeva and Daxner-Höck 2014, Sych 1975 and Wang and Qiu 2004
Sister taxa: Desmatolagus ardynense, Desmatolagus chinensis, Desmatolagus gazini, Desmatolagus orlovi, Desmatolagus periaralicus, Desmatolagus pusillus, Desmatolagus robustus, Desmatolagus schizopetrus, Desmatolagus simplex, Desmatolagus veletus, Desmatolagus vetustus, Desmatolagus vusillus, Desmatolagus youngi
Type specimens:
- Desmatolagus gobiensis: AMNH 19103, a maxilla. Its type locality is Loh, which is in an Oligocene terrestrial horizon in the Hsanda Gol Formation of Mongolia.
- Desmatolagus parvidens:
- Desmatolagus radicidens:
- Desmatolagus shargaltensis:
- Procaprolagus mongolicus:
- Procaprolagus orlovi:
- Sinolagomys tatalgolicus:
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Miocene of Mongolia (1 collection)
• Oligocene of China (7), Kazakhstan (2), Mongolia (32)
Total: 42 collections including 43 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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