Eptesicus fuscus grandis Brown, 1908
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Eptesicus grandis Brown, 1908
Conservation Status
Extinct (Morgan & Czaplewski, 2025:306)
Last record: Late Pleistocene (Morgan & Czaplewski, 2025:306)
Distribution & Habitat
Arkansas & Maryland, USA
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Brown, B. (1908). The Conard Fissure, a Pleistocene bone deposit in northern Arkansas: with descriptions of two new genera and twenty new species of mammals. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 9(4): 157-208.
Other references:
Gidley, James W. and Gazin, Charles Lewis. (1933). New Mammalia in the Pleistocene fauna from Cumberland Cave. Journal of Mammalogy 14(4): 343-357. https://doi.org/10.2307/1373954
Gidley, James W. and Gazin, Charles Lewis. (1938). The Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from Cumberland Cave Maryland. Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum, Bulletin 171: i-vi, 1-99, 50 figs, 10 pls. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.171.i
Guilday, John E. (1967). Notes on the Pleistocene big brown bat Eptesicus grandis (Brown). Annals of Carnegie Museum 39: 105-114. https://doi.org/10.5962/p.330857
Morgan, Gary S. and Czaplewski, Nicholas J. (2025). The North American fossil record of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from cave and karst deposits. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 87(4): 265-313. https://doi.org/10.4311/2024pa0116