Myotis dasycneme
The pond bat is a species of vesper bat. It is found in Eurasia from France to Russia and Kazakhstan.

Gilles San Martin from Namur, Belgium · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
- MyotisPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Chiroptera
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Chiroptera
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Chiroptera
Time the record covers
At least 1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 1.8 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.55 Mya to 11.7 ka.
8 occurrences of Myotis dasycneme on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
8 occurrences- Pliocene7%
- Pleistocene93%
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.
Myotis dasycneme and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Myotis dasycneme and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
173 taxa- Allocricetus7 sites
- Mimomys7 sites
- Myodes6 sites
- Talpa fossilis6 sites
- Citellus5 sites
- Glis sackdillingensis5 sites
- Microtus5 sites
- Apodemus4 sites
- Apodemus sylvaticus4 sites
- Beremendia fissidens4 sites
- Cervus4 sites
- Cricetus cricetus4 sites
- Crocidura4 sites
- Hypolagus4 sites
- Lemmus lemmus4 sites
- Myotis mystacinus4 sites
- Ochotona4 sites
- Petenyia hungarica4 sites
- Pliomys4 sites
- Rhinolophus ferrumequinum4 sites
- Sorex4 sites
- Sorex minutus4 sites
- Sorex runtonensis4 sites
- Anura3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Myotis dasycneme, 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
4 references- Pleistocene vertebrate faunas of Hungary5
- Mittelpleistozane Saugetierfaunen aus Mitteleuropa - der Versuch einer biostratigraphischen Zuordnung1
- La Belle-Roche (Sprimont, Belgium): the oldest archaeological site in the Benelux. A Report on a field trip1
- Ein neuer Eomyide (Rodentia, Mammalia) aus dem Ältestpleistozän ("Oberes Villafrankium", Villanyium) des Osztramos (Nordostungarn); (A new Eomyid (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the lowermost Pleistocene (upper Villafranchian) from Osztramos mountain (Northeastern Hungary)1
Each of the 8 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 content2
Picture of Myotis dasycneme
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Gilles San Martin from Namur, Belgium
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Pond bat”
- 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 itMyotis through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Boie 1825