| 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 |
| Binomial name | |
| †Sylvilagus leonensis (Cushing, 1945) | |
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.
The dwarf cottontail was smaller than living cottontail species, comparable in size to the living pygmy rabbit.
References
- "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.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Sylvilagus leonensis | |
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