Macrotus waterhousii
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MacrotusPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Phyllostomidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Chiroptera
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Chiroptera
Time the record covers
At most 129 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
17 occurrences of Macrotus waterhousii on record, most of them in the Holocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
17 occurrences- Pleistocene34%
- Holocene66%
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.
Macrotus waterhousii and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Macrotus waterhousii and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
129 taxa- Geocapromys11 sites
- Anolis sagrei8 sites
- Capromys8 sites
- Puffinus lherminieri8 sites
- Osteopilus septentrionalis6 sites
- Anolis5 sites
- Athene cunicularia5 sites
- Eptesicus fuscus5 sites
- Erophylla sezekorni5 sites
- Leiocephalus5 sites
- Nesophontes5 sites
- Brachyphylla nana4 sites
- Coereba flaveola4 sites
- Cyclura4 sites
- Cyclura nubila4 sites
- Passeriformes4 sites
- Psittacus leucocephalus4 sites
- Aristelliger praesignis3 sites
- Chilabothrus3 sites
- Chiroptera3 sites
- Cubophis vudii3 sites
- Gallinago kakuki3 sites
- Patagioenas leucocephala3 sites
- Zenaida aurita3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Macrotus waterhousii, 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
5 references- Late Quaternary fossil vertebrates from the Cayman Islands9
- Holocene vertebrates from a dry cave on Eleuthera Island, Commonwealth of The Bahamas4
- Studies on Fossil and Extant Vertebrates from San Salvador (Watling's) Island, Bahamas2
- Exceptionally well preserved late Quaternary plant and vertebrate fossils from a blue hole on Abaco, The Bahamas1
- New genus and species of fossil bat (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from Cuba1
Each of the 17 occurrences 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Macrotus waterhousii
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- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Macrotus waterhousii was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMacrotus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1843