Myotis austroriparius
The southeastern myotis is a small bat found throughout the Gulf Coastal Plain and the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Plain of the southeastern United States.

United States Forest Service · 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- Sits inside
- MyotisPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Chiroptera
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Chiroptera
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Chiroptera
Time the record covers
At least 198 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 210 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 1.4 Mya to 0 Mya.
13 occurrences of Myotis austroriparius on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
13 occurrences- Pleistocene92%
- Holocene8%
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 Myotis austroriparius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Myotis austroriparius and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Myotis austroriparius and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
333 taxa- Dasypus bellus11 sites
- Equus11 sites
- Odocoileus virginianus11 sites
- Geomys pinetis10 sites
- Neofiber alleni9 sites
- Scalopus aquaticus9 sites
- Cryptotis parva8 sites
- Didelphis virginiana8 sites
- Lynx rufus8 sites
- Microtus pinetorum8 sites
- Sylvilagus floridanus8 sites
- Aenocyon dirus7 sites
- Neotoma floridana7 sites
- Oryzomys palustris7 sites
- Palaeolama mirifica7 sites
- Peromyscus gossypinus7 sites
- Platygonus compressus7 sites
- Sciurus carolinensis7 sites
- Sigmodon hispidus7 sites
- Urocyon cinereoargenteus7 sites
- Blarina carolinensis6 sites
- Gopherus polyphemus6 sites
- Hemiauchenia macrocephala6 sites
- Holmesina septentrionalis6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Myotis austroriparius, 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- Chronology of Florida Pleistocene mammals3
- Neotropical Chiroptera from the Pliocene and Pleistocene of Florida2
- Historical Biogeography of Florida Pleistocene Mammals2
- Holocene vertebrates from a dry cave on Eleuthera Island, Commonwealth of The Bahamas1
- Late Rancholabrean mammals from south- ernmost Florida, and the Neotropical influence in Florida Pleistocene faunas1
- Taphonomy of a late Pleistocene carnivore den, Dade County, Florida1
- Pleistocene mammals from the Rock Springs Local Fauna, Central Florida1
- Fossil mammals from the Coleman IIA fauna, Sumter County1
- Late Pleistocene mammals from the Devil's Den Fauna, Levy County1
Each of the 13 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 Myotis austroriparius
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- United States Forest Service
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Myotis austroriparius was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itMyotis through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rhoads 1897)