Aselliscus
Aselliscus is a genus of bat in the family Hipposideridae. As of 2015, it contains the following species:Dong Bac's trident bat Stoliczka's trident bat Temminck's trident bat

George Edward Dobson · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HipposideridaePBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Chiroptera
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Chiroptera
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Chiroptera
Time the record covers
At most 1.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 774 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Aselliscus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
1 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Aselliscus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Aselliscus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
67 taxa- Ailuropoda wulingshanensis1 site
- Anourosorex1 site
- Apodemus1 site
- Arctonyx collaris1 site
- Atherurus1 site
- Belomys1 site
- Blarinella1 site
- Bos (Bibos)1 site
- Caprinae1 site
- Cervavitus fenqii1 site
- Chiropodomys1 site
- Crocidura1 site
- Cuon1 site
- Dremomys1 site
- Eothenomys1 site
- Erictis sp.1 site
- Felis1 site
- Gigantopithecus blacki1 site
- Hapalomys1 site
- Hippopotamodon1 site
- Hipposideros1 site
- Hominidae1 site
- Hylobates1 site
- Hystrix1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Aselliscus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Aselliscus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- George Edward Dobson
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Credit
- AMNH Mammal Collections
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Aselliscus tricuspidatus · amnh:mammals:151546
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Aselliscus”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHipposideridae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tate 1941