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Synemporion keana

Synemporion
Temporal range: Holocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Genus: Sinemporion
Ziegler et al., 2016
Species: S. keana
Binomial name
Synemporion keana
Ziegler et al., 2016

Synemporion was an extinct genus of bat which lived in what is now Hawaii, between 320,000 and 1,100 years ago.

The first fossil remnants of Synemporion were found in a lava tube in Maui in 1981, but have since been found on other islands as well.


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