Lasiurus intermedius
The northern yellow bat is a non-migratory bat in the family Vespertilionidae, typically active year-round except during abnormally frigid winter weather, during which they will induce torpor.

Juan Cruzado Cortés · 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
- northern yellow batPBDB
- Sits inside
- LasiurusPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Vespertilionidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Chiroptera
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Chiroptera
Time the record covers
At most 199 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 210 ka and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Lasiurus intermedius 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
5 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.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Lasiurus intermedius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lasiurus intermedius and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Lasiurus intermedius and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
235 taxa- Cryptotis parva4 sites
- Didelphis virginiana4 sites
- Geomys pinetis4 sites
- Microtus pinetorum4 sites
- Neofiber alleni4 sites
- Neotoma floridana4 sites
- Ochrotomys nuttalli4 sites
- Odocoileus virginianus4 sites
- Oryzomys palustris4 sites
- Peromyscus gossypinus4 sites
- Peromyscus polionotus4 sites
- Podomys floridanus4 sites
- Scalopus aquaticus4 sites
- Sigmodon hispidus4 sites
- Synaptomys australis4 sites
- Aenocyon dirus3 sites
- Ammodramus henslowii3 sites
- Aythya collaris3 sites
- Blarina carolinensis3 sites
- Bufo terrestris3 sites
- Colaptes auratus3 sites
- Colinus suilium3 sites
- Corvus brachyrhynchos3 sites
- Corvus ossifragus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Lasiurus intermedius, 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- Historical Biogeography of Florida Pleistocene Mammals2
- New genus and species of fossil bat (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from Cuba1
- Late Pleistocene mammals from the Devil's Den Fauna, Levy County1
- Chronology of Florida Pleistocene mammals1
Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Lasiurus intermedius
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Juan Cruzado Cortés
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lasiurus intermedius 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 itLasiurus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Allen 1862