Hipposideros

Hipposideros is one of the most diverse genera of bats, with more than 70 species. They are collectively called roundleaf bats after the shape of their nasal ornament. It is the type genus of the family Hipposideridae. It is divided into species groups based on morphology.

Hipposideros

John Gould · 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
roundleaf 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 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 54 occurrencesEocene — about 21 of 54 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 54 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 8 of 54 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 54 occurrencesPleistocene — about 14 of 54 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 7 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 8 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–25 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences41.03 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

54 occurrences of Hipposideros 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

54 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°EShungura — 5.08°N, 36.03°EPerriere — 44.35°N, 1.73°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 Hipposideros has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 40 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hipposideros and its relatives

Eocene

Where Hipposideros and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

854 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Hipposideros, 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

29 references

Each of the 54 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. 17 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 content2

Picture of Hipposideros

Credit
John Gould
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itHipposideridae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1831