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Desmatolagus vetustus

Osteichthyes - Lagomorpha - Leporidae

Taxonomy

Desmatolagus vetustus was named by Burke (1941). Its type specimen is AMNH 26089, a mandible, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Jhama Obo, which is in an Eocene terrestrial horizon in the Ulan Gocho Formation of China.

It was recombined as Procaprolagus vetustus by Gureev (1960).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

D. schargaltensis

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1941	Desmatolagus vetustus Burke
1960	Procaprolagus vetustus Gureev
1975	Desmatolagus vetustus Sych
2004	Desmatolagus vetustus Meng and Hu p. 266
2005	Desmatolagus vetustus Meng et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
class	Osteichthyes
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()

Rank	Name	Author
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
—	Gliriformes	Wyss and Meng 1996
—	Glires	()
—	Duplicidentata	()
order	Lagomorpha	Brandt 1885
family	Leporidae
genus	Desmatolagus
species	vetustus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Desmatolagus vetustus Burke 1941

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

terrestrialsubc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

ground dwellingf

Diet:

grazerf

Diet 2:

browserf

Reproduction:

viviparoussubc

Created:

2005-06-08 10:11:09

Modified:

2005-08-26 13:52:57

Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum

References: Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979

Age range: base of the Middle Eocene to the top of the Early/Lower Oligocene or 48.07000 to 27.30000 Ma

Collections (10 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Middle Eocene	48.07 - 37.71	China (Nei Mongol)	Desmatolagus vetustus (61229)
Late/Upper Eocene	37.71 - 33.9	China (Nei Mongol)	Desmatolagus vetustus (77908 type locality: 174752 174913 174914)
Early/Lower Oligocene	33.9 - 27.3	Mongolia (Övörkhangai)	Desmatolagus vetustus (75595 135803 180953)
Early/Lower Oligocene	33.9 - 27.3	China (Xinjiang)	Desmatolagus vetustus (174978)
Early/Lower Oligocene	33.9 - 27.3	Mongolia	Desmatolagus vetustus (182130)