Vulcanops

Vulcanops
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Mystacinidae
Genus: †Vulcanops
Hand et al. 2018
Species:
†V. jennyworthyae
Binomial name
†Vulcanops jennyworthyae
Hand et al. 2018

Vulcanops jennyworthyae is an extinct species of bat that lived during the Miocene in New Zealand, a large burrowing microchiropteran that probably ate arthropods and plant material around twenty million years before present. It is the type and only described species of the genus Vulcanops.

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