Prolagus

Prolagus (a Graeco, πρό 'ante' et λαγώς 'lepus') est genus exstinctum mammalium lagomorphorum, unicum genus familiae Prolagidarum. Olim haec subfamilia Ochotonidarum habebantur et Prolaginae appellabantur.

Sceletus Prolagi

Animalia — Chordata

Classis : Mammalia
Ordo : Lagomorpha
Familia : †Prolagidae
Gureev, 1960
Genus : †Prolagus
Pomel, 1853

Palaeontologia

232–0 m.a.: Miocaenum inferius > Recens

Subdivisiones: Species

Vide corpus paginae

Species typica

Prolagus oeningensis König, 1825

Territorium

Ubi fossilia prolagorum inventa sunt

Genus Prolagus plures species priscas continet,^[1] quarum una sola, P. sardus, ad tempora historica superstes fuit.^[2]

Prolagus aguilari
Prolagus apricenicus
Prolagus bilobus^[3]
Prolagus crusafonti López Martinez 1977
Prolagus fortis
Prolagus figaro
Prolagus imperialis
Prolagus italicus
Prolagus major
Prolagus michauxi
Prolagus oeningensis König 1825
Prolagus osmolskae^[4]
Prolagus praevasconiensis
Prolagus sardus (Wagner, 1832)
Prolagus schnaitheimensis
Prolagus sorbinii
Prolagus tobieni
Prolagus vasconiensis Viret 1930

[1]
Angelone, C. (2004). "Messinian Prolagus (Lagomorpha, Mammalia) of Italy". Messinian Online
[2]
Nowak, Ronald M. (1999). Walker's Mammals of the World, 6th edition, volume II. Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 1936 pp.
[3]
Čermák, S.; Angelone, C. (2013). "Revision of the type material of the Pliocene species Prolagus bilobus Heller, 1936 (Mammalia, Lagomorpha), with comments on the taxonomic validity of P. osmolskae Fostowicz-Frelik, 2010". Bulletin of Geosciences 88 (1): 45–50
[4]
Fostowicz-Frelik, Ł (2010). "A new species of Pliocene Prolagus (Lagomorpha, Ochotonidae) from Poland is the northernmost record of the genus". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (2): 609–612