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Megachiroptera

Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)40623https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40623
Ranksuborder (PBDB)
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Chiroptera : Megachiroptera
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SynapsidaOsborn 1903
-Therapsida
infraorderCynodontia
-EpicynodontiaHopson and Kitching 2001
infraorderEucynodontiaKemp 1982
-ProbainognathiaHopson 1990
-MammaliamorphaRowe 1988
-MammaliaformesRowe 1988
classMammaliaLinnaeus 1758
subclassTribosphenida
infraclassEutheria
-PlacentaliaOwen 1837
-LaurasiatheriaWaddell et al. 1999
-ScrotiferaWaddell et al. 1999
orderChiropteraBlumenbach 1779
suborderMegachiropteraDobson 1875
Common Namefruit bat
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Megachiropterasuborderbelongs to Chiropterastated without evidenceFlower, 1883
Megachiropterasubordersubjective synonym of Frugivorastated without evidenceGregory, 1910
Megachiropterasuborderbelongs to Chiropteristated without evidenceJaekel, 1911
Megachiropterasuborderbelongs to ChiropteraimpliedCarroll, 1988
Status (PBDB)extant
Taxon Size (PBDB)16
Extant Size (PBDB)13 (81%)
First Recorded Appearance5.33 - 3.60 Ma
Neogene
Environmentterrestrial (based on Megachiroptera)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)
Dietfrugivore (based on Megachiroptera)
Reproductionviviparous (based on Megachiroptera)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Pteropodidae
family
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
Fruit Bat425.33 Ma
Miocene
0 Ma
Extant

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1875Megachiroptera Dobson
1883Megachiroptera Flower p. 185
1891Megachiroptera Flower and Lydekker p. 92
1911Megachiroptera Jaekel p. 212
1975Megachiroptera McKenna p. 42
1980Megachiroptera Kurten and Anderson p. 116
1988Megachiroptera Carroll

References

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698
Flower W. H. On the arrangement of the Orders and Families of existing Mammalia, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1883, 178-186
Jaekel O. (1911) , Die Wirbeltiere. Eine Übersicht über die Fossilen und Lebenden Formen [The Vertebrates. An Overview of the Fossil and Living Forms], viii-252
McKenna M. C. (1975) Toward a phylogenetic classification of the Mammalia, Phylogeny of the Primates, Plenum Publishing, New York, 21-46
Kurten B., Anderson E. (1980) , Pleistocene mammals of North America, 1-442
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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