Triaenops
Triaenops is a genus of bat in the family Rhinonycteridae. It is classified in the tribe Triaenopini, along with the closely related genus Paratriaenops and perhaps the poorly known Cloeotis. The species of Paratriaenops, which occur on Madagascar and the Seychelles, were placed in Triaenops until 2009. Triaenops currently contains the following species:Triaenops afer Triaenops menamena Triaenops parvus Triaenops persicus
Julie Ranivo & Steven M. Goodman · Public Domain · 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
- trident batPBDB
- Sits inside
- HipposideridaePBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Chiroptera
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Chiroptera
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Chiroptera
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Triaenops on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
3 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Triaenops and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Triaenops and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
107 taxa- Cheirogaleus medius3 sites
- Coua cristata3 sites
- Eliurus3 sites
- Microgale3 sites
- Miniopterus3 sites
- Mus musculus3 sites
- Numida meleagris3 sites
- Setifer setosus3 sites
- Tenrec ecaudatus3 sites
- Accipiter madagascariensis2 sites
- Archaeolemur edwardsi2 sites
- Avahi cleesei2 sites
- Babakotia radofilai2 sites
- Buteo2 sites
- Capra aegagrus2 sites
- cf. Boophinae indet.2 sites
- Chaerephon leucogastert2 sites
- Coracopsis nigra2 sites
- Coua2 sites
- Coua gigas2 sites
- Cryptoprocta2 sites
- Cryptoprocta ferox2 sites
- Dryolimnas cuvieri2 sites
- Erymnochelys madagascariensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Triaenops, 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- Subfossil lemur discoveries from the Beanka Protected Area in western Madagascar2
- New findings at Andrahomana Cave, southeastern Madagascar1
Each of the 3 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 Triaenops
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Julie Ranivo & Steven M. Goodman
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Triaenops 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Triaenops”
- 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 itHipposideridae through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dobson 1871