Mammalia - Chiroptera - Phyllostomidae
Etymology: souchos, Greek, crocodilian; arados, Greek, a rumbling in the bowels; -eus, Greek, doer, agent, maker of. Based on the possibility that IGM 252869 passed through the gut of a crocodilian
Full reference: N. J. Czaplewski, M. Takai, T. M. Naeher, N. Shigehara, and T. Setoguchi. 2003. Additional bats from the middle Miocene La Venta fauna of Colombia. Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciecias exactas, físicas y naturales 27(103):263-282
Belongs to Notonycteris according to N. J. Czaplewski et al. 2003
Sister taxon: Notonycteris magdalenensis
Type specimen: IGM-KU 9305, a tooth (complete left m1 in small fragment of the dentary bone.). Its type locality is Chepe site (La Venta) Kyoto University, which is in a Laventan terrestrial horizon in the Villavieja Formation of Colombia.
Ecology: volant omnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Colombia (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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