Nycteris thebaica
The Egyptian slit-faced bat is a species of slit-faced bat broadly distributed throughout Africa and the Middle East. It is a species of microbat in the family Nycteridae. Six subspecies are known.
Susan Ellis, Bugwood.org · CC BY 3.0 us · 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
- Egyptian slit-faced batPBDB
- Sits inside
- NycterisPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Nycteridae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Chiroptera
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Chiroptera
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Nycteris thebaica 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
2 occurrences- Pleistocene50%
- Holocene50%
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.
Nycteris thebaica and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Nycteris thebaica and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
102 taxa- Aepyceros melampus2 sites
- Amblysomus hottentotus2 sites
- Crocidura2 sites
- Cryptomys hottentotus2 sites
- Dendromus2 sites
- Epimys (Aethomys)2 sites
- Eptesicus2 sites
- Felis lybica2 sites
- Graphiurus murinus2 sites
- Hystrix africaeaustralis2 sites
- Lemniscomys2 sites
- Lepus capensis2 sites
- Mellivora capensis2 sites
- Mus2 sites
- Otomys2 sites
- Panthera pardus2 sites
- Papio ursinus2 sites
- Phacochoerus aethiopicus2 sites
- Potamochoerus porcus2 sites
- Raphicerus campestris2 sites
- Rhinolophus clivosus2 sites
- Saccostomus2 sites
- Scotophilus2 sites
- Steatomys pratensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Nycteris thebaica, 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
2 references- Structure of Nylsrley Savanna1
- The Mammalian Fauna from the Middle and Later Stone Age (Later Pleistocene) Levels of Border Cave, Natal Province, South Africa1
Each of the 2 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 Nycteris thebaica
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Susan Ellis, Bugwood.org
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0 us
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Nycteris thebaica 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 itNycteris through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Saint-Hilaire 1818