Phyllostominae

Phyllostominae is a subfamily of bats that include big-eared, spear-nosed, sword-nosed bats and relatives.

Phyllostominae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
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 least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 17.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 21 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 5 of 22 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 22 occurrencesPleistocene — about 11 of 22 occurrencesPleistocene22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.9–2.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.1–1.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.4–717 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences717 ka–0 Mya — about 15 occurrences17.5 Mya11.7 ka21.5 Mya0 Mya

22 occurrences of Phyllostominae 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

22 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

3 formations

Villavieja — 3.28°N, 75.20°WVillavieja — 3.25°N, 75.17°WCucaracha — 9.05°N, 79.67°WSarmiento — 45.67°S, 68.71°W

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The named rock units Phyllostominae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phyllostominae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Phyllostominae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

182 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Phyllostominae, 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

11 references

Each of the 22 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 Phyllostominae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Phyllostominae 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.

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What may have been alongside itPhyllostomidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1825