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.
^Hand, S. J.; Beck, R. M.; Archer, M.; Simmons, N. B.; Gunnell, G. F.; Scofield, R. P.; Tennyson, A. J. D.; De Pietri, V. L.; Salisbury, S. W.; Worthy, T. H. (2018). "A new, large-bodied omnivorous bat (Noctilionoidea: Mystacinidae) reveals lost morphological and ecological diversity since the Miocene in New Zealand". Scientific Reports. 8 (1): 235. Bibcode:2018NatSR...8..235H. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-18403-w. PMC 5762892. PMID 29321543.
present. It is the type and only described species of the genus Vulcanops. Vulcanops jennyworthyae was described in 2018 from fossilized teeth and bone...
living genus date to the Miocene of New Zealand. A second extinct genus, Vulcanops, lived sympatrically with Mystacina in New Zealand from the Miocene until...
eastwards from Australia to New Zealand". A study describing the genus Vulcanops renders Icarops paraphyletic towards the rest of Mystacinidae, with I...
2018; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020. Vulcanops Gen. et sp. nov Valid Hand et al. Early Miocene Bannockburn Formation...
vesper bat and several incertae sedis species. This bat fauna included Vulcanops, a giant burrowing bat three times the size of today’s relatives, and...