Rhinolophus hipposideros

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhinolophusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Rhinolophidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Chiroptera
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Chiroptera
Time the record covers
At least 117 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 129 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.
5 occurrences of Rhinolophus hipposideros 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
5 occurrences- Pleistocene80%
- Holocene20%
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.
Rhinolophus hipposideros and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Rhinolophus hipposideros and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
119 taxa- Myotis4 sites
- Eptesicus3 sites
- Apodemus2 sites
- Apodemus mystacinus2 sites
- Arvicola2 sites
- Aves2 sites
- Barbastella2 sites
- Canis2 sites
- Martes foina2 sites
- Microtus2 sites
- Miniopterus schreibersi2 sites
- Myodes2 sites
- Myotis bechsteini2 sites
- Myotis blythi2 sites
- Myotis emarginatus2 sites
- Myotis mystacinus2 sites
- Nyctalus noctula2 sites
- Pliomys2 sites
- Rhinolophus blasii2 sites
- Rhinolophus ferrumequinum2 sites
- Sorex2 sites
- Sorex minutus2 sites
- Sus scrofa2 sites
- Ursus deningeri2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Rhinolophus hipposideros, 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
5 references- First record of serotine bat Eptesicus serotinus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Early-Middle Holocene in southern Europe (Boeotia - Greece)1
- Mittelpleistozane Saugetierfaunen aus Mitteleuropa - der Versuch einer biostratigraphischen Zuordnung1
- Pleistocene vertebrate faunas of Hungary1
- Grabungen in der Zwergelefanten-Höhle „Charkadio” auf der Insel Tilos (Dodekanes, Griechenland)1
- The small mammals of the Guela Cave1
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. 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 Rhinolophus hipposideros
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Lylambda (lylambda@gmail.com)
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- 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 and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itRhinolophus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bechstein 1800