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Oryctolagus
Taxonomy
Oryctolagus was named by Lilljeborg (1874). It is extant.
It was reranked as Lepus (Oryctolagus) by Boule and De Villeneuve (1927).
It was assigned to Lepus by Boule and De Villeneuve (1927); to Leporinae by Dawson (1958); and to Leporidae by Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi (1995), Worthy (1997) and McKenna and Bell (1997).
It was reranked as Lepus (Oryctolagus) by Boule and De Villeneuve (1927).
It was assigned to Lepus by Boule and De Villeneuve (1927); to Leporinae by Dawson (1958); and to Leporidae by Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi (1995), Worthy (1997) and McKenna and Bell (1997).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1790 | Cuniculus Meyer p. 52 |
1874 | Oryctolagus Lilljeborg |
1927 | Lepus (Oryctolagus) Boule and De Villeneuve p. 80 |
1958 | Oryctolagus Dawson p. 60 |
1995 | Oryctolagus Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi p. 238 |
1997 | Oryctolagus McKenna and Bell |
1997 | Oryctolagus Worthy p. 112 |
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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. Oryctolagus Lilljeborg 1874
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Oryctolagus cuniculus Linnaeus 1758 [European rabbit]
Invalid names: Cuniculus Meyer 1790 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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References: Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Nowak 1991, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988 |
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Miocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 11.60800 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 5.333 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 5.333 Ma
Collections (75 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Late/Upper Miocene | Spain (Granada) | O. sp. (26752) | |
Ruscinian | Greece | O. laynensis (36579) | |
Ruscinian | Spain (Soria) | O. laynensis (40548) | |
Pliocene | Spain (Albacete) | O. laynensis (40564 41933 41937) | |
Pliocene - Pleistocene | Italy (Tuscany) | O. lacosti (51812) | |
Pliocene - Pleistocene | Italy (Umbria) | O. lacosti (51684) | |
Pliocene - Pleistocene | Spain (Andalucia) | O. sp. (35038) | |
Pliocene - Pleistocene | France (Midi-Pyrenees) | O. sp. (35076) | |
Pliocene - Pleistocene | Italy (Sardinia) | O. lacosti (51475 51478 51479) | |
Villanyian | Hungary (Fejer) | O. sp. (35374) | |
Gelasian | Spain (Granada) | O. sp. (77773) | |
MN 17 | France (Rhone-Alpes) | O. lacosti (47150) | |
Early/Lower Pleistocene | Italy (Sardinia) | O. lacosti (51480) | |
Early/Lower Pleistocene | Croatia (Istria) | O. lacosti (40500) | |
Early/Lower Pleistocene | Spain (Murcia) | O. lacosti (34911) | |
Early/Lower Pleistocene | Turkey | O. cuniculus (39314) | |
Early/Lower Pleistocene | Greece (Thessaly) | O. lacosti (34782) | |
Early/Lower Pleistocene | Spain (Castilla-Leon) | O. sp. (34916) | |
Early/Lower Pleistocene | Spain (Granada) | O. lacosti (34898) | |
Early/Lower Pleistocene | Italy (Tuscany) | O. cuniculus (51778) | |
Early/Lower Pleistocene | Italy | O. etruscus (42867) | |
Early/Lower Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene | Spain (Asturias) | O. sp. (49211) | |
Pleistocene | Morocco | O. cuniculus (22489) | |
Pleistocene | Italy (Puglia) | O. cuniculus (44091) | |
Pleistocene | Belgium | O. cuniculus (34127) | |
Pleistocene | Spain (Castilla-Leon) | O. sp. (34872) | |
Pleistocene | Australia (Western Australia) | O. cuniculus (182924) | |
Pleistocene | Greece (Chalkidiki) | O. sp. (183123) | |
Pleistocene | Spain (Segovia) | O. cuniculus (36452 36517 36518 36519 36520 36521 36522 36523) | |
Pleistocene - Holocene | Libya | O. cuniculus (21884) | |
Pleistocene - Holocene | Morocco | O. cuniculus (21856 21857) | |
Calabrian | Spain (Castilla-Leon) | O. sp. (34870) | |
Calabrian | Spain (Murcia) | O. sp. (34128) | |
Calabrian - Middle Pleistocene | Italy (Sardinia) | O. lacosti (51482) | |
Calabrian - Middle Pleistocene | Spain (Granada) | O. sp. (35078) | |
Middle Pleistocene | Italy (Roma) | O. sp. (44090) | |
Middle Pleistocene | Italy (Capri Island) | Hystrix cristata, Lepus cuniculus (43016) | |
Middle Pleistocene | Portugal (Algarve) | Lepus timidus (40809) | |
Middle Pleistocene | Italy (Lazio Region) | O. cuniculus (36134) | |
Middle Pleistocene | France (Languedoc-Roussillon Region) | O. cuniculus (36756) | |
Middle Pleistocene | France (Aquitaine Region) | O. cuniculus (36757 36758 36759) | |
Middle Pleistocene | Spain (Granada) | O. cuniculus (34842) | |
Middle Pleistocene | Spain (Valencia) | O. cuniculus (221420 221421 221422 221424 221425 221426) | |
Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Monaco | Lepus cuniculus (191730) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (New South Wales) | O. cuniculus (181897) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene | Portugal (Algarve) | O. cuniculus (40984) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene | France (Poitou-Charentes) | O. cuniculus (43619 43629 43631) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene | France | O. cuniculus (43630) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene | Portugal | O. sp. (197768) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene | Spain (Valencia) | O. cuniculus (205285 221412 221414 221415 221416) |