Myotis rectidentis Choate & Hall, 1967
Straight-toothed myotis
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct (Morgan & Czaplewski, 2025:303)
Last record: Late Pleistocene (Morgan & Czaplewski, 2025:303)
Distribution & Habitat
New Mexico & Texas, USA
Type locality: Laubach Cave (now Inner Space Caverns), Georgetown, Travis County, Texas, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: SMU 61780 (left dentary)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Choate, J. R. and E. R. Hall. (1967). Two new species of bats, genus Myotis, from a Pleistocene deposit in Texas. American Midland Naturalist 78: 531-534.
Other references:
Dalquest, Walter W. and Stangl, Frederick B., Jr. (1984). The taxonomic status of Myotis magnamolaris, Choate and Hall. Journal of Mammalogy 65(3): 485-486. https://doi.org/10.2307/1381098
Dorsey, S. L. (1977). A reevaluation of two new species of fossil bats from Inner Space Caverns: Texas Journal of Science 28: 103-108.
Harris, Arthur H. (1989). The New Mexican late Wisconsin—east versus west. National Geographic Research 5:205-217.
Harris, Arthur H. (1993). Quaternary vertebrates of New Mexico, pp. 179-197. In: Vertebrate Paleontology in New Mexico, New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Bulletin 2:i-vii, 1-338.
Harris, Arthur H. (2019). Pleistocene Vertebrates of Southwestern USA and Northwestern Mexico. Available at: https://www.utep.edu/leb/pleistnm/
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