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Title: Pleistocene Bats from San Josecito Cave, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

Author: J. Knox Jones, Jr.

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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Volume 9, No. 14, pp. 389-396
December 19, 1958

Pleistocene Bats from San Josecito Cave,
Nuevo Leon, Mexico

BY

J. KNOX JONES, JR.

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS

LAWRENCE

1958

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch,
Robert W. Wilson

Volume 9, No. 14, pp. 389-396
Published December 19, 1958

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED IN
THE STATE PRINTING PLANT
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1958

27-5516

Pleistocene Bats from San Josecito Cave,
Nuevo Leon, Mexico

BY

J. KNOX JONES, JR.

Some of the Pleistocene mammals from San Josecito Cave, near Aramberri,
Nuevo Leon, Mexico, collected by field parties of the California
Institute of Technology under the direction of the late Professor
Chester Stock, have been reported previously (see Furlong, 1943;
Cushing, 1945; Stock, 1950; Hooper, 1952; Findley, 1953; Stock, 1953;
Handley, 1955; Jackway, 1958). In 1950, Professor Stock loaned a
portion of the San Josecito material to the University of Kansas for
identification. Included therein were 89 crania and rami of bats,
representing three families (Phyllostomidae, Desmodontidae and
Vespertilionidae) and five genera, each represented by a single
species. One of the species is here described as new. Three of the
kinds are known only from the Pleistocene and two are Recent species.

The only previous mention of fossil bats from Mexico known to me
concerns material from San Josecito Cave. Cushing (1945:182) mentioned
a "vampire bat" from the cave (see also Maldonado-Koerdell, 1948:17