Tadarida

The genus Tadarida has nine or more species of free-tailed bats divided into two subgenera, with the first of these containing seven species spread across the Old World. Four species occur exclusively in Africa including Madagascar while two more species occur in central Papua New Guinea, and western and southern Australia, respectively.

Tadarida

Matti Mero · 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
TadaridinaePBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Molossidae
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Chiroptera
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Chiroptera

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 4 of 36 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 36 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 36 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 36 occurrencesPleistocene — about 16 of 36 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–33 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences10–9.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.0–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–6.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.1–3.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 22 occurrences33.9 Mya11.7 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

36 occurrences of Tadarida 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

36 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.

Found in

3 formations

Perrière — 44.37°N, 1.73°EPerrière — 44.38°N, 1.43°ETamiami — 27.37°N, 82.45°WKiahera — 0.33°S, 34.10°E

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The named rock units Tadarida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 32 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tadarida and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Tadarida and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

933 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Tadarida, 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

29 references

Each of the 36 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. 17 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 Tadarida

Credit
Matti Mero
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Tadarida teniotis teniotis · AMNH:Mammals:M-235609

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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rafinesque 1814