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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 Le?n, M?xico
J. KNOX JONES, JR.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE
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 TOPEKA, KANSAS
Pleistocene Bats from San Josecito Cave, Nuevo Le?n, M?xico
J. KNOX JONES, JR.
Some of the Pleistocene mammals from San Josecito Cave, near Aramberri, Nuevo Le?n, M?xico, collected by field parties of the California Institute of Technology under the direction of the late Professor Chester Stock, have been reported previously . 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 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.
Brief descriptions of the cave have been published by Miller and Stock . The precise age of the deposits is unknown; stratification data did not accompany the material sent on loan to the University of Kansas. However, most of the micro-fauna is thought to have come from the higher levels in the cave and is probably late Pleistocene.
The San Josecito Cave collections are currently the property of the Los Angeles County Museum.
I am grateful to Dr. E. Raymond Hall for permission to study the bats from San Josecito Cave, to Dr. Robert W. Wilson for criticism of the manuscript, and to Mr. Philip Hershkovitz for permission to use comparative material at the Chicago Natural History Museum. Lucy Rempel made the drawings from photographs by John M. Legler.
The species is named in honor of the late Professor Chester Stock, under whose direction the fossil materials from San Josecito Cave were obtained, and who, at the time of his death, was studying the mammalian fauna from the cave.
It is perhaps worthy of note that Lasiurus cinereus is primarily a tree-dwelling bat, although a few Recent specimens have been reported from caves .
LITERATURE CITED
BEER, J. R.
BROWN, B.
CUSHING, J. E., JR.
FINDLEY, J. S.
FURLONG, E. L.
GIDLEY, J. W., and GAZIN, C. L.
HANDLEY, C. O., JR.
HOOPER, E. T.
MALDONADO-KOERDELL, M.
JACKWAY, G. E.
MILLER, L.
STAINS, H. J.
STOCK, C.
Transcriber's Note:
Replaced the two occurrences of male and female symbols with the words "male" and "female".
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