Myotis cf. schaubi and other bats from the Pleistocene of the Central Altai Mts., Russia

• Main Author: Valentina V Rosina
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Vespertilio murinus
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1081.8005; http://zmmu.msu.ru/bats/biblio/ros_12.pdf

Abstract. The bat fauna from the Paleolithic locality of the Ust'-Kanskaya cave includes: Plecotus auritus, P. aff. auritus, Eptesicus nilssonii, E. cf. nilssonii, Vespertilio murinus, Vespertilio sp., Murina hilgendorfi, Myotis blythii, M. petax, Myotis sp. and M. cf. schaubi. The most abundant and common species are E. nilssonii, E. cf. nilssonii, P. auritus and P. aff. auritus, while M. cf. schaubi, M. blythii and all remaining species are rare and not numerous. Among the fossil bats from the Ust'-Kanskaya cave only M. cf. schaubi is reported here for the first time as a fossil species that became extinct in the Altai Mts. and remains so to the present day. The scarcity of the fossil bat material and the peculiar aggregation of bat taxa are evidence in favour of the accumulation of bat bones as ae result of natural mortality during hibernation. The unique findings of M. cf. sсhaubi and some archaic voles (Allophaiomys and Mimomys) enable some speculations about the age of certain layers and beds of the Ust'-Kanskaya cave.