Sylvilagus leonensis

Sylvilagus leonensis
Temporal range: Late Pleistocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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]

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.


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