Cynopterus
Cynopterus is a genus of megabats. The cynopterine section is represented by 11 genera, five of which occur in Malaysia, namely, Chironax, Balionycteris, Penthetor, Dyacopterus, and Cynopterus. About 30 names for Cynopterus species have been proposed, but only 16 are taxonomically valid forms.

The original uploader was Tabdulla at English Wikipedia . · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
- PteropinaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Vespertilionidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Chiroptera
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Chiroptera
Time the record covers
At most 118 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 11.7 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cynopterus 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
1 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Cynopterus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Cynopterus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Anura1 site
- Aonyx cinerea1 site
- Bronchocela1 site
- Bufo1 site
- Chiropodomys1 site
- Chiroptera1 site
- Collocalia1 site
- Collocalia esculenta1 site
- Crocidura1 site
- Dicaeum agile aeruginosum1 site
- Elapidae1 site
- Emballonura cf. alecto1 site
- Eonycteris spelaea1 site
- Gekkonidae1 site
- Hipposideros1 site
- Hylopetes1 site
- Hypothymis azurea1 site
- Hystrix (Thecurus) pumila1 site
- Lacertilia1 site
- Macaca fascicularis1 site
- Mammalia1 site
- Masomys panglima1 site
- Megaderma spasma1 site
- Microhylidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cynopterus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Cynopterus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- The original uploader was Tabdulla at English Wikipedia .
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cynopterus 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, “Cynopterus”
- 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 itPteropina through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cuvier 1824