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The screen-washing activities of three field seasons by the Sino-American Yushe teams processed tons of sediment from two dozen localities. Of the many micromammals recovered from Late Neogene deposits, only five chiropteran (bat) teeth were found. These are from five localities dated between 6 and 3 Ma. The bat fossils are assignable or very close to modern genera. In distribution, three of the genera occur in North China today, while at least one is currently of more southerly distribution, occurring to the southwest in Sichuan Province. Together with Pleistocene records, the Yushe Basin fossils suggest that current bat distributions are reduced with respect to early Pleistocene species ranges.
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I thank Will Downs and Wen-Yu Wu for their careful labors during the screening , and Tai-Ming Wang for field work in the Nihe subbasin, which produced the Nihe bat tooth. The collections of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University under the care of Judith Chupasko and Mark Omura were invaluable for identifications. Reviewers Nick Czaplewski, Bill Korth, Mark Omura, and Wen-Yu Wu offered many improvements.
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Flynn, L.J. (2017). The Bats of Yushe. In: J. Flynn, L., Wu, WY. (eds) Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China: Geology and Fossil Mammals. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1050-1_3
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