Prolagus oeningensis

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|fossil_range = {{fossil range|15.97|7.75}} Langhian - late Tortonian

|image = Prolagus oeningensis 01.JPG

|image_caption = Prolagus oeningensis fossil

|genus = Prolagus

|species = oeningensis

|authority = König, 1825

|synonyms = *Prolagus aeningensis (König, 1825)

Lagomys (Cuvier, 1800)
Anoema (König, 1825)
Archaeomys (Fraas, 1856)
Myolagus (Hensel, 1856)

|synonyms_ref = {{cite web|publisher=Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History|author=Wilson & Reeder's Mammal Species of the World|url=http://vertebrates.si.edu/msw/mswCFApp/msw/taxon_browser.cfm?msw_id=6785|title=Prolagus|access-date=2015-08-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203051153/http://vertebrates.si.edu/msw/mswcfapp/msw/taxon_browser.cfm?msw_id=6785|archive-date=2016-02-03|url-status=dead}}

|range_map = Prolagus oeningensis fossil distribution map.png

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Prolagus oeningensis fossils distribution map.{{cite journal|last1=Ge|first1=Deyan|last2=Wen|first2=Zhixin|last3=Xia|first3=Lin|last4=Zhang|first4=Zhaoqun|last5=Erbajeva|first5=Margarita|last6=Huang|first6=Chengming|last7=Yang|first7=Qisen|date=April 3, 2013|title=Evolutionary History of Lagomorphs in Response to Global Environmental Change|journal=PLOS ONE|volume=8|issue=4:e59668|pages=e59668 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0059668|doi-access=free |pmc=3616043|pmid=23573205|bibcode=2013PLoSO...859668G }}{{refn|group=n|name=a|The coordinates of additional fossils not listed in the xls file attached to Ge and all paper were taken from the Paleobiology Database.{{cite web|url=https://paleobiodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=basicTaxonInfo&taxon_no=57001|title=The Paleobiology Database. †Prolagus oeningensis König 1825 (pika)|accessdate=2015-03-12}}}}

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Prolagus oeningensis is an extinct lagomorph and the type species of its genus, Prolagus. It lived from 15.97 to 7.75 Ma, existing for about 8 million years.

Range

The species has been found in various locations in Europe and Asia. It was named after the town of Öhningen in Germany, its type locality.{{cite journal|title=Prolagus oeningensis (Lagomorpha, Mammalia) from the Middle Miocene of Mühlbach am Manhartsberg, Lower Austria|url=http://verlag.nhm-wien.ac.at/pdfs/104A_293296_Boon-Kristkoiz.pdf|last=Boon-Kristkoiz|first=Ellen|journal=Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien|volume=104 A|pages=293–296|year=2003}}

Diet

This species was possibly a herbivore like other living lagomorphs.

Notes

References

Additional references of the Paleobiology Database

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{{cite journal|last1=Antunes|first1=M. T.|last2=Mein|first2=P.|year=1981|title=Vertébrés du miocène moyen de amor (Leiria) - importance stratigraphique|journal=Ciências da Terra|volume=6|lang=fr|pages=169–188}} [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/T. Liebrecht]
Paleobiology Database: Amor, [https://paleobiodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=basicCollectionSearch&collection_no=136322 point 1 ("premiere gisement" of Zbyszewski)]", [https://paleobiodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=basicCollectionSearch&collection_no=136334 Amor, points 2 to 5] (Miocene of Portugal)

{{cite journal|last1=Buffetaut|first1=E.|last2=Crouzel|first2=F.|last3=Juillard|first3=F.|last4=Stigliani|first4=F.|year=1984|title=Le crocodilien longirostre Gavialosuchus dans le Miocene moyen de Polastron (Gers, France)|journal=Geobios|volume=17|issue=1|lang=fr|pages=113–117|doi=10.1016/S0016-6995(84)80009-1 |bibcode=1984Geobi..17..113B }} [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
Paleobiology Database: [https://paleobiodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=basicCollectionSearch&collection_no=143472 Polastron (Miocene of France)]

{{cite journal|last=Heissig|first=K.|year=1989|title=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)|journal=Geologica Bavarica|volume=94|lang=de|pages=239–257}} [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]
Paleobiology Database: Ziemetshausen [https://paleobiodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=basicCollectionSearch&collection_no=44977 1b], [https://paleobiodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=basicCollectionSearch&collection_no=45594 1a] (Miocene of Germany)

{{cite journal|last1=Ginsburg|first1=L.|last2=Bonneau|first2=M.|year=1995|title=La succession des faunes de mammiferes miocenes de Pontigne (Maine-et-Loire, France)|journal=Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle|volume=4|issue=2–4|lang=fr|pages=313–328}} [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]Paleobiology Database: [https://paleobiodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=basicCollectionSearch&collection_no=148396 Pontigne 4 (marine) (Miocene of France) (les Buissoneaux)]

Additional contributors to utilized records of Paleobiology Database (authorizers supplying these records) include Johannes Mueller, Philip Mannion, John Alroy, Mark Uhen.

{{cite journal|last1=Böttcher|first1=R.|last2=Heizmann|first2=E. P. J.|last3=Rasser|first3=M. W|last4=Ziegler|first4=R.|year=2009|title=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)|journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen|volume=254|issue=1/2|pages=237–260|doi=10.1127/0077-7749/2009/0011 }} [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]
Paleobiology Database: [https://paleobiodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=basicCollectionSearch&collection_no=48325 Oggenhausen 2 (Miocene of Germany)]

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Category:Prehistoric lagomorphs

Category:Extinct mammals of Europe

Category:Miocene mammals

Category:Langhian first appearances

Category:Tortonian extinctions