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Gobiolagus

Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae

Taxonomy

Gobiolagus was named by Burke (1941). Its type is Gobiolagus tolmachovi.

It was assigned to Mytonolaginae by Burke (1941); to Lagomorpha by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Leporidae by Meng and Hu (2004) and Meng et al. (2005); to Strenulagidae by Averianov and Lopatin (2005) and Lopatin and Averianov (2006); and to Palaeolagidae by Fostowicz-Frelik et al. (2012).

Species

G. aliwusuensis, G. burkei, G. gromovi, G. hekkeri, G. lii, G. major, G. tolmachovi (syn. G. andrewsi) (type species)

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1941	Gobiolagus Burke
1997	Gobiolagus McKenna and Bell
2004	Gobiolagus Meng and Hu p. 262
2005	Gobiolagus Averianov and Lopatin
2005	Gobiolagus Meng et al.
2006	Gobiolagus Lopatin and Averianov
2012	Gobiolagus Fostowicz-Frelik et al.

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

Rank	Name	Author
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Theriamorpha	(Rowe 1993)
—	Theriiformes	()
—	Trechnotheria
—	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	Gobiolagus

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.

G. †Gobiolagus Burke 1941

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†Gobiolagus aliwusuensis Fostowicz-Frelik et al. 2012

†Gobiolagus burkei Meng et al. 2005

†Gobiolagus gromovi Erbajeva 1999

†Gobiolagus hekkeri Shevyreva 1995

†Gobiolagus lii Zhang et al. 2001

†Gobiolagus major Burke 1941

†Gobiolagus tolmachovi Burke 1941

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Invalid names: Gobiolagus andrewsi Burke 1941 [synonym]

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

Age range: base of the Ypresian to the top of the Early/Lower Oligocene or 56.00000 to 28.40000 Ma

Collections (16 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Ypresian	56.0 - 47.8	Kyrgyzstan (Osh)	Romanolagus hekkeri (28490)
Sharamurunian	56.0 - 37.71	China (Henan)	G. sp. (41120)
Sharamurunian	56.0 - 37.71	Mongolia	G. aliwusuensis (182486)
Middle Eocene	47.8 - 37.71	China (Nei Mongol)	G. aliwusuensis (174721) G. major, G. andrewsi (61229) G. sp. (174737) G. sp., G. tolmachovi, G. burkei (28786) G. tolmachovi (174748 176020)
Middle Eocene	47.8 - 37.71	Mongolia	G. sp. (75718 174909)
Late/Upper Eocene	37.2 - 33.9	China (Nei Mongol)	G. andrewsi (174752) G. major (77908) G. tolmachovi (174913)
Early/Lower Oligocene	33.9 - 28.4	Kazakhstan (Aktyubinskaya)	G. sp., G. major, Zaissanolagus gromovi (174743)
Early/Lower Oligocene	33.9 - 28.4	China (Nei Mongol)	G. tolmachovi (174915)