Micronycteris
Micronycteris is a genus of leaf-nosed bats.
Christian Ziegler · CC BY 2.5 · 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- Also called
- big-eared batPBDB
- Sits inside
- PhyllostomidaePBDB
- 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.
5 occurrences of Micronycteris 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
5 occurrences- Pleistocene40%
- Holocene60%
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.
Micronycteris and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Micronycteris and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
205 taxa- Carollia2 sites
- Cuniculus paca2 sites
- Dasyprocta2 sites
- Dasypus (Dasypus) novemcinctus2 sites
- Echimys2 sites
- Glossophaga2 sites
- Heteromys2 sites
- Mimon2 sites
- Myotis2 sites
- Oryzomys2 sites
- Phyllostomus2 sites
- Proechimys2 sites
- Rhogeessa2 sites
- Sturnira2 sites
- Tonatia2 sites
- Trachops cirrhosus2 sites
- Uroderma2 sites
- Accipitridae1 site
- Aenocyon dirus1 site
- Alouatta seniculus1 site
- Ameiva ameiva1 site
- Ametrida centurio1 site
- Anas bahamensis1 site
- Anura1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Micronycteris, 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
3 references- Density, Productivity, and Distribution of Mammals in Two Venezuelan Habitats3
- Fossil bat (Mammalia: Chiroptera) remains from Inciarte tar pit, Sierra de Perijá, Venezuela.1
- Fauna de mamíferos do Quaternário de Serra da Mesa (Goiás, Brasil)1
Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Micronycteris
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Christian Ziegler
- Licence
- CC BY 2.5
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Micronycteris 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.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPhyllostomidae through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1866