Megaderma

Megaderma is a genus of bat in the family Megadermatidae. It contains two living species:Lesser false vampire bat Greater false vampire bat

Megaderma

R. A. Sterndale · 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
MegadermatidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Megadermatidae
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Chiroptera
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Chiroptera

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 8 of 14 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 4 of 14 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.4–7.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.6–4.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences23.04 Mya129 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

14 occurrences of Megaderma on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

14 occurrences

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.

Found in

1 formation

Colombacci — 44.22°N, 11.77°E

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The named rock units Megaderma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megaderma and its relatives

Miocene

Where Megaderma and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

479 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Megaderma, 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

13 references

Each of the 14 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Megaderma

Credit
R. A. Sterndale
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Megaderma spasma · ummz:mammals:163615

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMegadermatidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Geoffroy 1810