Sylvilagus leonensis Temporal range: Late
Pleistocene
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Scientific classification | |
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)
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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]