Mammalia - Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae

Alternative combination: Plecotus alleganiensis

Full reference: J. W. Gidley and C. L. Gazin. 1933. New Mammalia in the Pleistocene fauna from Cumberland Cave. Journal of Mammology 14(4):343-357

Belongs to Corynorhinus according to R. E. Eshelman et al. 2025

See also Gidley and Gazin 1933 and Kurten and Anderson 1980

Sister taxa: Corynorhinus rafinesquii, Corynorhinus townsendii, Plecotus (Corynorhinus) atavus

Type specimen: USNM 12412, a partial skull (skull with incomplete dentition and lacking bullae and zygomatic arches). Its type locality is Cumberland Cave, which is in an Irvingtonian cave horizon in Maryland.

Ecology: volant omnivore

Distribution: found only at Cumberland Cave

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