Prolagus oeningensis

Prolagus oeningensis
Prolagus oeningensis fossil
Conservation status
Prehistoric
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Lagomorpha
Family: †Prolagidae
Genus: †Prolagus
Species: †P.oeningensis
Binomial name
Prolagus oeningensis
König, 1825
Prolagus oeningensis fossils distribution map.[1][n 1]

Prolagus oeningensis, Anoema aeningensis or Prolagus aeningensis[3] is an extinct species in the genus Prolagus. It is the type species of this genus. It was a lagomorph, and possibly resembled a pika.

Range

Like most Prolagidae, this species lived in Europe. All members of the genus Prolagus are Mediterranean giant pikas,[4] so P.oeningensis lived in the areas of Europe close to the Mediterranean sea. The case with this species is different; it lived in what is now Öhningen, Germany.

Diet

This species was possibly strictly vegetarian.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ge, Deyan; Wen, Zhixin; Xia, Lin; Zhang, Zhaoqun; Erbajeva, Margarita; Huang, Chengming; Yang, Qisen (April 3, 2013). "Evolutionary History of Lagomorphs in Response to Global Environmental Change". PLoS ONE 8 (4:e59668). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0059668. Retrieved May 22, 2014. Table_S1.xls
  2. ↑ "The Paleobiology Database. †Prolagus oeningensis König 1825 (pika)". Retrieved 2015-03-12.
  3. ↑ http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl/TaxonName.aspx?id=1126026&src=0&syn=1
  4. ↑ The following website calls Prolagidae Mediterranean giant pikas:http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Prolagus_sardus/classification/

Notes

  1. ↑ The coordinates of additional fossils not listed in the xls file attached to Ge and all paper[1] were taken from the Paleobiology Database.[2][pdb 1][pdb 2][pdb 3][pdb 4][pdb 5][pdb 6]

Additional references of the Paleobiology Database

  1. ↑ Antunes, M. T.; Mein, P. (1981). "Vertébrés du miocène moyen de amor (Leiria) - importance stratigraphique". Ciências da Terra 6: 169–188. [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/T. Liebrecht]
    Paleobiology Database: Amor, point 1 ("premiere gisement" of Zbyszewski)", Amor, points 2 to 5 (Miocene of Portugal)
  2. ↑ Buffetaut, E.; Crouzel, F.; Juillard, F.; Stigliani, F. (1984). "Le crocodilien longirostre Gavialosuchus dans le Miocene moyen de Polastron (Gers, France)". Geobios 17 (1): 113–117. [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
    Paleobiology Database: Polastron (Miocene of France)
  3. ↑ Heissig, K. (1989). "Neue Ergebnisse zur Stratigraphie der mittleren Serie der Oberen Süßwassermolasse Bayerns (New results on the stratigraphy of the middle series of upper Freshwater Molasse, Bavaria)". Geologica Bavarica 94: 239–257. [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]
    Paleobiology Database: Ziemetshausen 1b, 1a (Miocene of Germany)
  4. ↑ Ginsburg, L.; Bonneau, M. (1995). "La succession des faunes de mammiferes miocenes de Pontigne (Maine-et-Loire, France)". Bulletin de Musee national Histoire naturell 4 (2-4): 313–328. [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]Paleobiology Database: Pontigne 4 (marine) (Miocene of France) (les Buissoneaux)
  5. ↑ Böttcher, R.; Heizmann, E. P. J.; Rasser, M. W; Ziegler, R. (2009). "Biostratigraphy and palaeoecology of a Middle Miocene (Karpathian, MN 5) fauna from the northern margin of the North Alpine Foreland Basin (Oggenhausen 2, SW' Germany)". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 254 (1/2): 237–260. [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]
    Paleobiology Database: Oggenhausen 2 (Miocene of Germany)
  6. ↑ Additional contributors to utilized records of Paleobiology Database (authorizers supplying these records) include Johannes Mueller, Philip Mannion, John Alroy, Mark Uhen.