Old World Fruit Bats (Pteropodidae, Chiroptera) from the Pleistocene of Vietnam

Isolated teeth of a lesser short-nosed fruit bat Cynopterus brachyotis (Müller, 1838), a fulvous fruit bat Rousettus leschenaultii (Desmarest, 1820), and a dawn bat Eonycteris spelaea (Dobson, 1871) are described from the Middle Pleistocene Tham Hai cave locality in northern Vietnam (Lang Son Provin...

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Published inDoklady. Biological sciences Vol. 517; no. 1; pp. 96 - 105
Main Author Lopatin, A. V.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Moscow Pleiades Publishing 01.08.2024
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Animals
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Caves
Chiroptera - anatomy & histology
Chiroptera - classification
Chiroptera - physiology
Evolutionary Biology
Fossils
Fruits
Life Sciences
Plant Sciences
Pleistocene
Pteropodidae
Tooth - anatomy & histology
Vietnam
Vietnam
Middle Pleistocene
Vietnam
Old World fruit bats
Pteropodidae
Lang Son
Chiroptera
Cynopterus brachyotis
Rousettus leschenaultii
Eonycteris spelaea
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Summary:Isolated teeth of a lesser short-nosed fruit bat Cynopterus brachyotis (Müller, 1838), a fulvous fruit bat Rousettus leschenaultii (Desmarest, 1820), and a dawn bat Eonycteris spelaea (Dobson, 1871) are described from the Middle Pleistocene Tham Hai cave locality in northern Vietnam (Lang Son Province). These are the first fossil findings of the Old World fruit bats in Vietnam. The Middle Pleistocene association of Pteropodidae from the Tham Hai locality may largely reflect the composition of species that roosted in local caves.
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ISSN:0012-4966
1608-3105
1608-3105
DOI:10.1134/S0012496624600143