Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 7() 1962
Bats of the early Pleistocene from Koneprusy (Czechoslovakia)
Abstract:
This work contains a description of the remains of bats from cave С 718, submitted to the author for elaboration by O. Fejfar. INTRODUCTION. In 1952 a cave, later denoted with the symbol C 718, was discovered at Cesarski Łom in Koneprusy in Czechoslovakia. Its sediments contained a rich fauna of the early Pleistocene, which was investigated by O. Fejfar. The results of his investigations have been published in the form of preliminary reports and fragmentary elaborations (O. Fejfar, 1956 a, 1956 b, 1956 c, 1956 d, 1959 and 1961). Fejfar suggests that this fauna indicates the origin of the sediments during the Mindel glaciation. In the paper of 1959, he specifies the remains of the following bats from cave С 718: three specimens of Myotis sp., eight of Plecotus sp. and one of Rhinolophus sp. However, I have not found any members of the genus Rhinolophus Lacépède in the material sent to me. I wish to express my heartiest thanks to Dr. Oldrich Fejfar for providing me with this interesting material to work out. The material that I received is pretty abundant but not very well preserved. It consists almost exclusively of mandibles, besides which there is only one fragment of a skull with teeth P4-M3. The collection is also rich in bony fragments of the limbs of bats, but so far it has been impossible to identify them precisely. Therefore, the mandibles constitute the most important part of the material, though they are not preserved whole, either. They are, as a rule, fragmentary and mostly lacking in teeth and processes; no incisors are present in any of them. Only for the most numerous species it was possible to collect the material permitting to examine all the remaining teeth and the shape of the processes of the mandibular branches.
