Pteronotus quadridens

Pteronotus quadridens (Gundlach, 1840) Figures 3, 5 MATERIAL EXAMINED: Cueva de Lily: 1 complete skull, 2 skull fragments, 1 dentary, 2 radii. Oleg’s Bat Cave: 1 complete skull, 1 dentary. EXTANT DISTRIBUTION: Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico (Dávalos and Turvey, 2012; Simmons, 2005). FOSSIL RECORD: Pteronotus quadridens has previously been recovered from a Quaternary cave deposit (Cerro de San Francisco) in the Dominican Republic (fig. 2; table 1). Additionally, P. quadridens has been found in Pleistocene or Holocene cave deposits in Cuba (Silva Taboada, 1974, 1979; Woloszyn and Silva Taboada, 1977) and the Bahamas (Andros, Great Abaco, and New Providence; Morgan, 2001). REMARKS: No consistent differences in cranial or postcranial morphology or size were found between our sample and the comparative material (appendix).
Published as part of Velazco, Paúl M., O'Neill, Hannah, Gunnell, Gregg F., Cooke, Siobhán B., Rimoli, Renato, Rosenberger, Alfred L. & Simmons, Nancy B., 2013, Quaternary Bat Diversity in the Dominican Republic, pp. 1-20 in American Museum Novitates 2013 (3779) on page 11, DOI: 10.1206/3779.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5364403
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