Where: Maui County, Hawaii (20.6° N, 156.4° W: paleocoordinates 20.6° N, 156.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• "James et al. (1987) estimated the age of the cave to be greater than 10,000 years, and more recently, Sherrod et al. (2007) reported the age of the host lava flow as 13,000 to 30,000 ybp." (Ziegler et al. 2016)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Francis G. Howarth and Fred D. Stone in 1982
• Repository: Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA
Primary reference: A. C. Ziegler, F. G. Howarth, and N. B. Simmons. 2016. A second endemic land mammal for the Hawaiian Islands: A new genus and species of fossil bat (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). American Museum Novitates 2016(3854):1-52 [B. Allen/B. Allen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 231330: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 17.08.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Lasiurus cinereus semotus, Synemporion keana n. gen. n. sp.
Lasiurus cinereus semotus hairy-tailed bat
Synemporion keana n. gen. n. sp. Ziegler et al. 2016 vesper bat BPBM 159269 (holotype), a nearly complete skeleton of an adult individual including skull, both dentaries, and partial body skeleton with both scapulae, humeri, ulnae, radii, and femora; right tibia and partial innominate with 2 fused sacral vertebrae; 8 metacarpals; 2 manual phalanges; 1 pedal phalanx; atlas; 2 thoracic vertebrae; and 1 rib
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