Serengetilagus

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Serengetilagus [1]
Temporal range: 7.0–2.66  Ma [2]
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Serengetilagus praecapensis skull, Naturkunde Museum, Berlin.
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Lagomorpha
Family: Leporidae
Genus:† Serengetilagus
Dietrich 1942
Species
  • †S. praecapenisDietrich 1942
  • †S. tchadensisLópez-Martínez et al 2007 [2]

Serengetilagus is an extinct genus of lagomorph in the family Leporidae. It lived in the Pliocene of Kenya and Tanzania and the Late Miocene of Chad. [2] Serengetilagus is the best-represented taxon from Laetoli, with approximately 34 percent of fossils in the Laetolil Beds attributed to this genus. Additional specimens from Angola, Morocco [3] and Ukraine [4] may also belong to this genus. It had a number of specific features unknown in other lagomorphs, such as a "missing" mesoflexid on its third premolar. [5]

The genus is represented by two species: Serengetilagus praecapensis , the type species, and S. tchadensis , known from 18 specimens from the Toros Menalla locality of Chad. [6]

References

  1. ↑ Dietrich WO. 1942. Early Quaternary mammals from the southern Serengeti, German East Africa. Palaeontographica.94(A):43–133. [In German]
  2. 1 2 3 López-Martínez, N., Likius, A., Mackaye, H. T., Vignaud, P., & Brunet, M. (2007). A new lagomorph from the Late Miocene of Chad (Central Africa). Revista Española de Paleontologia, 22, 1–20.
  3. ↑ Alisa J. Winkler, Dale A. Winkler & Terry Harrison (2016) Forelimb anatomy of Serengetilagus praecapensis (Mammalia: Lagomorpha): a Pliocene leporid from Laetoli, Tanzania, Historical Biology, 28:1-2, 252-263, https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2015.1023302
  4. ↑ G. A. Zerova. 1993. Late Cainozoic localities of snakes and lizards of Ukraine. Revue de Paléobiologie, Volume spéciale 7:273-280
  5. ↑ The Lower Third Premolar of Serengetilagus praecapensis (Mammalia: Lagomorpha: Leporidae) from Laetoli, Tanzania. In: Harrison T. (eds) Paleontology and Geology of Laetoli: Human Evolution in Context. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9962-4_3
  6. ↑ Winkler, Alisa J.; Avery, D. Margaret (2010). "Lagomorpha". In Werdelin, Lars; Sanders, William Joseph (eds.). Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. University of California Press. pp. 312–313. ISBN   978-0-520-25721-4.


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