†Suaptenos whitei Lawrence 1943 (vesper bat)
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Mammalia - Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Alternative combination: Suaptenes whitei
Full reference: B. Lawrence. 1943. Miocene bat remains from Florida, with notes on the generic characters of the humerus of bats. Journal of Mammalogy 24(3):356-369
Belongs to Suaptenos according to B. Lawrence 1943
See also Sherman 1952
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: M. C. Z. no. 4056, a limb element (humerus). Its type locality is Thomas Farm, which is in a Hemingfordian terrestrial sandstone/claystone in the Alachua Formation of Florida.
Ecology: volant omnivore
Distribution: found only at Thomas Farm
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