Serengetilagus
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| Serengetilagus praecapensis skull, Naturkunde Museum, Berlin. | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Lagomorpha |
| Family: | Leporidae |
| Genus: | †Serengetilagus Dietrich 1942 |
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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]
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