Myotis rectidentis Choate & Hall, 1967
Straight-toothed myotis
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: c. 11,900 BC
Distribution
New Mexico and Texas, USA
Biology
Hypodigm
Holotype: SMU 61780 (left dentary)
Type locality: Laubach Cave (now Inner Space Caverns), Georgetown, Travis County, Texas, USA.
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:
Harris, A. 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.