Miniopterus schreibersi

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- MiniopterusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Chiroptera
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Chiroptera
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Chiroptera
Time the record covers
At least 4.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 4.16 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.09 Mya to 0 Mya.
11 occurrences of Miniopterus schreibersi 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
11 occurrences- Pliocene9%
- Pleistocene82%
- Holocene9%
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.
Miniopterus schreibersi and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Miniopterus schreibersi and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
372 taxa- Crocidura7 sites
- Rhinolophus7 sites
- Myotis6 sites
- Epimys (Aethomys)5 sites
- Epimys (Mastomys)5 sites
- Otomys5 sites
- Tatera5 sites
- Cryptomys hottentotus4 sites
- Dasymys4 sites
- Hipposideros4 sites
- Mus4 sites
- Pelomys4 sites
- Steatomys pratensis4 sites
- Epimys (Aethomys) kaiseri3 sites
- Eptesicus3 sites
- Hystrix3 sites
- Lemniscomys3 sites
- Leporidae3 sites
- Saccostomus3 sites
- Sciurotamias3 sites
- Suncus3 sites
- Viverridae3 sites
- Amphibia2 sites
- Apodemus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Miniopterus schreibersi, 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
9 references- Early and Middle Pleistocene environments and hominid biogeography; micromammalian evidence from Kabwe, Twin Rivers and Mumbwa Caves in central Zambia3
- Huanglong Cave: A Late Pleistocene human fossil site in Hubei Province, China1
- A newly discovered Gigantopithecus fauna from Sanhe Cave, Chongzuo, Guangxi, South China1
- Pleistocene vertebrate faunas of Hungary1
- The use of fish remains in African archaeozoology1
- Paleoenvironmental and Cultural Implications of Late Holocene Archaeological Faunas from the Orange Free State and North Central Cape Province, South Africa1
- The Mammalian Fauna from the Middle and Later Stone Age (Later Pleistocene) Levels of Border Cave, Natal Province, South Africa1
- The small mammals of the Guela Cave1
- Insectivores, bats and rodents from the Early Pleistocene bone breccia of Podlesice near Kroczyce (Poland)1
Each of the 11 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 Miniopterus schreibersi
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Miniopterus schreibersi 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMiniopterus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Natterer 1819