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1 November 2009 Leporids (Mammalia, Lagomorpha) from the Diamond O Ranch Local Fauna, Latest Middle Eocene of Southwestern Montana
Łucja Fostowicz-Frelik, Alan R. Tabrum
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Abstract

Two species of lagomorphs are represented in the Diamond O Ranch local fauna of southwestern Montana. Mytonolagus ashcrafti, new species, is the most common mammal at Diamond O Ranch, and is comparable in evolutionary grade to Mytonolagus wyomingensis Wood, 1949, and more advanced than either Mytonolagus petersoni Burke, 1934, or Mytonolagus near M. petersoni. A second species of lagomorph is represented by only a few specimens from near the base of the Diamond O Ranch section. The teeth of this form tentatively assigned to Palaeolagus Leidy, 1856, are significantly more hypsodont than those of M. ashcrafti. The Diamond O Ranch local fauna falls very near the Duchesnean—Chadronian boundary in one of the most poorly documented temporal intervals during the entire Cenozoic of North America.

Łucja Fostowicz-Frelik and Alan R. Tabrum "Leporids (Mammalia, Lagomorpha) from the Diamond O Ranch Local Fauna, Latest Middle Eocene of Southwestern Montana," Annals of Carnegie Museum 78(3), 253-271, (1 November 2009). https://doi.org/10.2992/007.078.0303
Published: 1 November 2009
KEYWORDS
dental morphology
Duchesnean
Lagomorpha
Middle Eocene
Montana
Mytonolagus ashcrafti new species
Palaeolagus
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