Eumops

Eumops is a genus of bats in the family Molossidae. A total of 17 species of this genus have been described. The name "Eumops" comes from the Greek prefix Eu-, meaning "good" or "true", and the Malayan word mops, which means bat.

Eumops

Enwebb · 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
Also called
mastiff batPBDB
Sits inside
MolossidaePBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Molossidae
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Chiroptera
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Chiroptera

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 13.8 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 2 of 14 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 3 of 14 occurrencesPleistocene14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.8–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.3–3.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.3–2.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.9–2.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.4–1.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.9–1.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–953 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477 ka–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences11 Mya11.7 ka14.3 Mya0 Mya

14 occurrences of Eumops on record. 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

14 occurrences

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.

Found in

2 formations

Nuapua — 20.75°S, 63.07°WNuapua — 20.87°S, 63.07°WVillavieja — 3.32°N, 75.13°WVillavieja — 3.25°N, 75.17°W

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The named rock units Eumops has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

238 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Eumops, 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

10 references

Each of the 14 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 Eumops

Credit
Enwebb
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Eumops 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.

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What may have been alongside itMolossidae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1906