Hipposideridae

The Hipposideridae are a family of bats commonly known as the Old World leaf-nosed bats. While it has often been seen as a subfamily, Hipposiderinae, of the family Rhinolophidae, it is now more generally classified as its own family. Nevertheless, it is most closely related to Rhinolophidae within the suborder Yinpterochiroptera.

Hipposideridae

Charles J. Sharp · 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
Also called
leaf-nosed batPBDB
Sits inside
RhinolophoideaPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Chiroptera
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Chiroptera
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Chiroptera

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 110 occurrencesEocene — about 38 of 110 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 15 of 110 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 31 of 110 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 110 occurrencesPleistocene — about 15 of 110 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 13 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 15 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 6 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 4 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 21 occurrences41.03 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

110 occurrences of Hipposideridae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

110 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

6 formations

Perrière — 44.37°N, 1.73°EPerrière — 44.38°N, 1.43°EPerriere — 44.35°N, 1.73°EShungura — 5.08°N, 36.03°EAshawq — 17.06°N, 54.42°EChambi — 35.19°N, 8.65°EColombacci — 44.22°N, 11.77°E

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The named rock units Hipposideridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 89 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hipposideridae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Hipposideridae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,123 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Hipposideridae, 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

40 references

Each of the 110 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. 28 further references are not listed. 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 Hipposideridae

Credit
Charles J. Sharp
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Hipposideridae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itRhinolophoidea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lydekker 1891