Myotis thysanodes
The fringed myotis is a species of vesper bat that is found in British Columbia, Mexico, and the western United States.

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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 198 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 210 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 1.4 Mya to 0 Mya.
4 occurrences of Myotis thysanodes on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
4 occurrences- Pleistocene75%
- Holocene25%
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 thysanodes and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Myotis thysanodes and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
70 taxa- Antrozous pallidus2 sites
- Neotoma2 sites
- Peromyscus2 sites
- Antilocapra americana1 site
- Arctodus1 site
- Arvicolinae1 site
- Bassariscus astutus1 site
- Bison1 site
- Camelops1 site
- Canis latrans1 site
- Canis lupus1 site
- Celtis1 site
- Chaetodipus intermedius1 site
- Citellus1 site
- Cnemidophorus1 site
- Corynorhinus townsendii1 site
- Cricetidae1 site
- Crotalus1 site
- Crotaphytus collaris1 site
- Cynomys gunnisoni1 site
- Desmodus stocki1 site
- Dipodomys merriami1 site
- Dipodomys ordii1 site
- Dipodomys spectabilis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Myotis thysanodes, 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- Ancient bat remains illustrate the role of caves as habitat anchors in the temporally dynamic landscape of the Grand Canyon1
- Late Pleistocene bats from Arkenstone Cave, Arizona1
- Papago Springs Cave revisited, part II: vertebrate paleofauna1
- Pleistocene-Recent fauna of the Isleta Caves, Bernalillo County, New Mexico1
Each of the 4 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 content2
Picture of Myotis thysanodes
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- NPS
- Licence
- Public Domain
- 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
MorphoSource was 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 itMyotis through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1897