Plecotus

Plecotus is a genus of vesper bat, commonly called long-eared bats. They are found throughout Eurasia and northern Africa. Many species in the genus have only been described and recognized in recent years.

Plecotus

Fourrure from France · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
Sits inside
VespertilionaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Vespertilionidae
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Chiroptera
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Chiroptera

Time the record covers

At least 7.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 4 of 37 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 37 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 26 of 37 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 2 of 37 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.6–3.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 15 occurrences7.9 Mya11.7 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

37 occurrences of Plecotus 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

37 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.

Plecotus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Plecotus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,038 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Plecotus, 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

25 references

Each of the 37 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. 13 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 Plecotus

Credit
Fourrure from France
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itVespertilionae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Geoffroy 1818