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Emballonuridae

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Description

Emballonuridae is a family of microbats, many of which are referred to as sac-winged or sheath-tailed bats. They are widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions across the world.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emballonuridae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	9615	https://www.gbif.org/species/9615
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40636	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40636

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Chiroptera : Emballonuridae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
-	Laurasiatheria	Waddell et al. 1999
-	Scrotifera	Waddell et al. 1999
order	Chiroptera	Blumenbach 1779
suborder	Microchiroptera	Dobson 1875
superfamily	Emballonuroidea
family	Emballonuridae	Dobson 1875

Common Name

sac-winged bat

Scientific Name

Emballonuridae

Name Published In

In F. Comte de Castelnau, Exped. Partes Cen. Am. Sud., Zool.(Sec. 7) vol.Vol. 1 pt. 2(Mammifères) p.p. 62 footnote

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Emballonuridae	family	belongs to Microchiroptera	stated without evidence	Flower, 1883
Emballonuridae	family	belongs to Animalivora	stated without evidence	Cope, 1889
Emballonuridae	family	belongs to Microchiroptera	stated without evidence	Flower and Lydekker, 1891
Emballonuridae	family	belongs to Emballonuroidea	implied	Carroll, 1988
Emballonuridae	family	belongs to Chiroptera	implied	Nowak, 1991
Emballonuridae	family	belongs to Chiroptera	stated without evidence	Hooker, 1996
Emballonuridae	family	belongs to Emballonuroidea	stated without evidence	Ravel et al., 2016

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

9 (38%)

First Recorded Appearance

56.0 - 47.8 Ma
Eocene

Environment

terrestrial

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

insectivore

Reproduction

viviparous (based on Chiroptera)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution

Common Name(s)

Sac-winged, Sheath-tailed, And Ghost Bats, Sac-winged Bats, Sheath-tailed Bats, Sac-winged Bat

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emballonuridae

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Balantiopteryx genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Sac-winged Bat	1	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Centronycteris genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Coleura genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cormura genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyttarops genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Dhofarella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Diclidurus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Ghost Bat	1	16.3 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Emballonura genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Eppsinycteris ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Mosia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Paremballonura genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Peropteryx genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudovespertiliavus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Rhynchonycteris genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Proboscis Bat	1	0.01 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Saccolaimus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Saccopteryx genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Tachypteron ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	48.6 Ma Eocene	48.6 Ma Eocene
Taphozous genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	22.4 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Vespertiliavus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		21	56.0 Ma Paleocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Coleurus afra species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Coleurus seychellensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1875	Emballonuridae Dobson
1883	Emballonuridae Flower p. 185
1889	Emballonuridae Cope p. 876
1891	Emballonuridae Flower and Lydekker p. 92
1911	Emballonuridae Jaekel p. 213
1988	Emballonuridae Carroll
1991	Emballonuridae Nowak
1996	Emballonuridae Hooker p. 289
2016	Emballonuridae Ravel et al. p. 377

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

Cope E. D. Synopsis of the families of Vertebrata, The American Naturalist 23, 1-29

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

Nowak R. M. (1991) Walker's Mammals of the World, Maryland, Johns Hopkins University Press (edited volume) II

Hooker J. J. (1996) A primitive emballonurid bat (Chiroptera, Mammalia) from the earliest Eocene of England, Palaeovertebrata 25 2-4, 284-300

Ravel A., Adaci M., et al (2016) Origine et radiation initiale des chauves-souris modernes : nouvelles découvertes dans l’Éocène d’Afrique du Nord, Geodiversitas 38 3, 355-434 doi:10.5252/g2016n3a3

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner, 1987: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Simmons, Nancy B. / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: Order Chiroptera. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 312-529. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Teeling, Emma C., Mark S. Springer, Ole Madsen, Paul Bates, Stephen O'Brien, and William J. Murphy, 2005: A molecular phylogeny for bats illuminates biogeography and the fossil record. Science, vol. 307, no. 5709. 580-584. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

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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