Where: Bermuda (32.3° N, 64.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.3° N, 64.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• These were deposited at an elevation of 21.3 m above present sea-level in the maximum rise of interglacial MIS 11, about 400 kya ago (Hearty et al., 1999; Olson & Hearty, 2003)
Environment/lithology: foreshore; poorly lithified grainstone
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: original phosphate, original carbon
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: F. V. Grady and S. L. Olson. 2006. Fossil bats from Quaternary deposits on Bermuda (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Journal of Mammalogy 87:148-152 [M. Uhen/O. Gjata/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 94308: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Ornela Gjata on 16.02.2010, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Lasiurus borealis Muller 1776 hairy-tailed bat
Lasiurus seminolus Rhoads 1895 hairy-tailed bat |