Sylvilagus leonensis

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Sylvilagus leonensis
Temporal range: Late Pleistocene
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Lagomorpha
Family: Leporidae
Genus: Sylvilagus
Species:
S. leonensis
Binomial name
Sylvilagus leonensis
(Cushing, 1945) [1]

Sylvilagus leonensis, the dwarf cottontail, is an extinct species of rabbit from the Late Pleistocene, known from the San Josecito Cave in Nuevo Leon, Mexico. [2]

The dwarf cottontail was smaller than living cottontail species, comparable in size to the living pygmy rabbit. [3]

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References

  1. "Sylvilagus leonensis". Fossilworks.
  2. Jakway, George E. (1968). "Pleistocene Lagomorpha and Rodentia from the San Josecito Cave, Nuevo Leon, Mexico" . Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 61 (3): 313–327. doi:10.2307/3626451. JSTOR   3626451.
  3. Lumpkin, Susan; Seidensticker, John (February 2011). Rabbits: The Animal Answer Guide. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 28. ISBN   9781421401263.