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Vespertilio
Taxonomy
Vespertilio was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type genus of Vespertilionidae.
It was assigned to Primates by Linnaeus (1758); to Vespertilionina by Gray (1825); to Chiroptera by Schlosser (1877); and to Vespertilionidae by Hay (1902), Kurten (1968) and Kurten and Anderson (1980).
It was assigned to Primates by Linnaeus (1758); to Vespertilionina by Gray (1825); to Chiroptera by Schlosser (1877); and to Vespertilionidae by Hay (1902), Kurten (1968) and Kurten and Anderson (1980).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Vespertilio Linnaeus 1758
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†Vespertilio caliginosus Tomes 1859
Vespertilio majori Kormos 1934
Vespertilio nilssoni Keyserling and Blasius 1839
Vespertilio praeglacialis Kormos 1934
Vespertilio serotinus Schreber 1774
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Simmons et al. 2008, Nowak 1991, Ji et al. 2002 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Turolian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 8.70000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 5.333 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 5.333 Ma
Collections (10 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Turolian | Russian Federation (Rostovskaya Oblast') | V. villanyiensis (174455) | |
| Early/Lower Pliocene | China (Nei Mongol) | V. sinensis (75300) | |
| Pliocene | Spain (Albacete) | V. sp. (41932) | |
| Villanyian | Hungary (Barany) | V. majori (35369) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Italy (Verona) | V. sp. (43644) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Maryland) | V. grandis, V. sp. (20302) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Czech Republic | V. sp. (36214) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Hungary | V. sp. (35476) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Austria (Niederoesterreich) | V. discolor (50258) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | France (Poitou-Charentes) | V. murinus (43619) |