Haile 21A Desmodus (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Alachua County, Florida (29.8° N, 82.1° W: paleocoordinates 29.8° N, 81.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)

• said to be early Irvingtonian

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by Lawrence H. Martin, Jr., in 1983

• Repository: UF

Primary reference: G. S. Morgan, O. J. Linares, and C. E. Ray. 1988. New species of fossil vampire bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera, Desmodontidae) from Florida and Venezuela. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 101(4):912-928 [C. Jaramillo/M. Vallejo/A. Cardenas ]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 145845: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Maria Vallejo on 12.06.2013

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Chiroptera - Phyllostomidae
Desmodus archaeodaptes n. sp. Morgan et al. 1988 vampire bat
UF 94526