Minorcan Giant Lagomorph

Minorcan Giant Lagomorph

Taxobox
fossil_range = Late Miocene - mid Pliocene
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
infraclassis = Eutheria
superordo = Euarchontoglires
ordo = Lagomorpha
familia = "incertae sedis"
genus = "incertae sedis"

The Minorcan Giant Lagomorph is an extinct rabbit that lived in the island of Minorca from the Messinian until around the middle of the Pliocene, when it became extinct. During that time, both Majorca and Minorca were united in one large landform, allowing the "Myotragus balearicus" to colonize the Minorcan Giant Lagomorph's habitat.

Fossils have been found of individuals which could have weighed up to 23 kg. They had short legs and a short, straight and rigid vertebral column, very different from their living relatives.

References

* [http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conill_gegant_de_Menorca Translated from the Catalan wikipedia]
*ca [http://www.uib.es/premsa/marc03/dia-04/1666677.pdf Article in Menorca - Diario Insular]
*es Universitat de les Illes Balears [http://www.uib.es/servei/comunicacio/sc/projectes/arxiu/nousprojectes/myotragus/myotraguscast.pdf "Myotragus: de "oveja" a "cabra" a causa del clima y la insularidad" (PDF format)]


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