Sturnira

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- yellow-shouldered batPBDB
- Sits inside
- StenodermatinaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Phyllostomidae
- 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.
5 occurrences of Sturnira 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- Pleistocene60%
- Holocene40%
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.
Sturnira and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Sturnira and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
115 taxa- Carollia3 sites
- Desmodus3 sites
- Didelphidae3 sites
- Gracilinanus3 sites
- Monodelphis domestica3 sites
- Necromys3 sites
- Oligoryzomys3 sites
- Oryzomyini3 sites
- Oryzomys3 sites
- Phyllostomus3 sites
- Thrichomys3 sites
- Thylamys3 sites
- Tonatia3 sites
- Akodon2 sites
- Calomys tener2 sites
- Carterodon sulcidens2 sites
- Cuniculus paca2 sites
- Dasyprocta2 sites
- Dasypus (Dasypus) novemcinctus2 sites
- Dasypus (Dasypus) septemcinctus2 sites
- Glossophaga2 sites
- Macrophyllum2 sites
- Micronycteris2 sites
- Mimon2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Sturnira, 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- Fauna de mamíferos do Quaternário de Serra da Mesa (Goiás, Brasil)3
- Density, Productivity, and Distribution of Mammals in Two Venezuelan Habitats2
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content2

Picture of Sturnira
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Sturnira lilium parvidens · YPM:VZ:YPM MAM 000239
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itStenodermatinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1842