Chrotopterus auritus
The big-eared woolly bat or (Peters's) woolly false vampire bat is a species of bat, belonging to the family Phyllostomidae.

Guilherme Garbino · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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- Sits inside
- ChrotopterusPBDB
- 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.
4 occurrences of Chrotopterus auritus 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
4 occurrences- Pleistocene73%
- Holocene28%
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.
Chrotopterus auritus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Chrotopterus auritus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Mormoops megaphylla2 sites
- Nothrotherium maquinense2 sites
- Puma concolor2 sites
- Arctotherium (Pararctotherium) brasiliense1 site
- Caipora bambuiorum1 site
- Cerdocyon thous1 site
- Cervus gouazoubira1 site
- Coendou prehensilis1 site
- Conepatus semistriatus1 site
- Desmodus draculae1 site
- Desmodus rotundus1 site
- Eptesicus1 site
- Euphractus sexcinctus1 site
- Furipterus1 site
- Lama guanicoe1 site
- Leopardus1 site
- Leopardus pardalis1 site
- Lonchophylla1 site
- Myrmecophaga tridactyla1 site
- Noctilio leporinus1 site
- Panthera onca1 site
- Pecari tajacu1 site
- Procyon cancrivorus1 site
- Protocyon troglodytes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Chrotopterus auritus, 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
4 references- Mammalian fossils from Gruta do Ioiô cave and past of the Chapada Diamantina, northeastern Brazil, using taphonomy, radiocarbon dating and paleoecology1
- Sítios Arqueológicos e a Paisagem na Serra do Curupira. Província Serra Paraguaia-Araguaia, Rosário Oeste, Mato Grosso1
- A new extinct primate among the Pleistocene megafauna of Bahia, Brazil1
- Notas sobre una pequeña coleccion de huesos de mamiferos procedentes de las grutas calcareas de Iporanga en el Estado de Sao Paulo-Brazil1
Each of the 4 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 Chrotopterus auritus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Guilherme Garbino
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Chrotopterus auritus 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 itChrotopterus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Peters 1856