Sturnira

Sturnira known as a yellow-shouldered bat or American epauleted bat, is a genus of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. The genus name comes from the Latin for "starling" and refers to HMS Starling, which took part in an 1836 voyage to Brazil during which the type specimen was collected. It contains the following species:Angel's yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira angeli Aratathomas's yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira aratathomasi Baker's yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira bakeri Bidentate yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira bidens Bogotá yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira bogotensis Burton's yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira burtonlimi Hairy yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira erythromos Gianna's yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira giannae Choco yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira hondurensis Sturnira koopmanhilli Little yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira lilium Highland yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira ludovici Louis's yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira luisi Greater yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira magna Mistratoan yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira mistratensis Talamancan yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira mordax Lesser yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira nana Tschudi's yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira oporaphilum Northern yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira parvidens Paulson's yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira paulsoni La Perla yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira perla Soriano's yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira sorianoi Tilda's yellow-shouldered bat, Sturnira tildae

Sturnira

Burton K. Lim · 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
yellow-shouldered batPBDB
Sits inside
StenodermatinaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Phyllostomidae
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Chiroptera
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Chiroptera

Time the record covers

At most 2.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pliocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 5 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 2 of 5 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.5–2.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.1–2.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.0–1.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.1–1.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.0–924 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences924 ka–821 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences821 ka–719 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences719 ka–616 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences616 ka–513 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences513 ka–411 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411 ka–308 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308 ka–205 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences205 ka–103 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.08 Mya0 Mya

5 occurrences of Sturnira 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

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.

Sturnira and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Sturnira and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

115 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Sturnira, 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

2 references

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 content2

Picture of Sturnira

Credit
Burton K. Lim
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
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Specimen
Sturnira lilium parvidens · YPM:VZ:YPM MAM 000239

The description on this site

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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 itStenodermatinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1842