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]
| Sylvilagus leonensis Temporal range: Late Pleistocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Lagomorpha |
| Family: | Leporidae |
| Genus: | Sylvilagus |
| Species: | †S. leonensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Sylvilagus leonensis (Cushing, 1945)[1]
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The dwarf cottontail was smaller than living cottontail species, comparable in size to the living pygmy rabbit.[3]
References
edit- ^ "Sylvilagus leonensis". Fossilworks.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Lumpkin, Susan; Seidensticker, John (February 2011). Rabbits: The Animal Answer Guide. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 28. ISBN 9781421401263.
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