Phyllops vetus is an extinct relative of the Cuban fig-eating bat.[1] Its remains have been found on Cuba and Isle of Pines.
| Phyllops vetus Temporal range: Late Quaternary
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Phyllostomidae |
| Genus: | Phyllops |
| Species: | †P. vetus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Phyllops vetus (Anthony, 1917)
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P. vetus was smaller than its living relative. Recent discoveries in Cuba suggest that it survived into the Late Quaternary, perhaps as recently as 2,000 years ago.[2]
References
edit- ^ Anthony, H.E. (1917). "A new rabbit and a new bat from neotropical regions". Bulletin of the AMNH. 37. hdl:2246/1823.
- ^ Orihuela, Johanset; Pérez Orozco, Leonel; Álvarez Licourt, Jorge L.; Viera Muñoz, Ricardo A.; Santana Barani, Candido (2020). "Late Holocene land vertebrate fauna from Cueva de los Nesofontes, Western Cuba: Stratigraphy, chronology, diversity, and paleoecology". Palaeontologia Electronica. 23 (3): a57. doi:10.26879/995. ISSN 1935-3952.
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