Myotis myotis
The greater mouse-eared bat is a European species of bat in the family Vespertilionidae.

Urheber: Manuel Werner, Germany, Wikipedia-Kontakt: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Werner,_Deutschland · 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
- greater mouse-eared batPBDB
- 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 117 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 129 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.
10 occurrences of Myotis myotis 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
10 occurrences- Pleistocene80%
- Holocene20%
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.
Myotis myotis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Myotis myotis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
167 taxa- Equus caballus5 sites
- Microtus arvalis5 sites
- Rhinolophus ferrumequinum5 sites
- Equus4 sites
- Microtus4 sites
- Oryctolagus cuniculus4 sites
- Talpa europaea4 sites
- Vulpes4 sites
- Arvicola terrestris3 sites
- Canis lupus3 sites
- Cervus3 sites
- Crocidura leucodon3 sites
- Crocuta crocuta3 sites
- Eptesicus3 sites
- Erinaceus europaeus3 sites
- Myotis bechsteini3 sites
- Myotis nattereri3 sites
- Nyctalus noctula3 sites
- Panthera leo3 sites
- Passeriformes3 sites
- Sorex araneus3 sites
- Sorex minutus3 sites
- Ursus3 sites
- Apodemus sylvaticus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Myotis myotis, 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
7 references- Le gisement Pleistocene moyen et superieur d'Artenac (Saint-Mary, Charent): premier bilan interdisciplinaire3
- El yacimiento mesopleistoceno de Villacastin (Segovia, Espana): geologia y paleontologia de micromamiferos2
- Understanding the biogeography of Western European bats: the latest Pleistocene to Middle Holocene assemblage of El Mirador site (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)1
- Avian remains from new Upper Pleistocene and Holocene sites in the Spanish Pyrenees1
- First record of serotine bat Eptesicus serotinus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Early-Middle Holocene in southern Europe (Boeotia - Greece)1
- Castiglione 3, un nouveau remplissage fosilifere d'age Pleistocene moyen dans le karst de la region d'Oletta (Haute-Corse)1
- Remarks on the Middle and Lower Pleistocene vertebrate fauna in the Petralona Cave1
Each of the 10 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 content3
Picture of Myotis myotis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Urheber: Manuel Werner, Germany, Wikipedia-Kontakt: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Werner,_Deutschland
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Credit
- AMNH Mammal Collections
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Myotis myotis MYOTIS · AMNH:Mammals:M-244243
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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.
Keep going
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. (Borkhausen 1797)