A giant vampire bat (Phyllostomidae, Desmodontinae) from the Pliocene-Pleistocene El Breal de Orocual asphaltic deposits (tar pits), Venezuela

Numerous molecular phylogenetic analyses support the Desmodontinae (vampire bats) as one of the earliest-diverging lineages of Phyllostomidae (western hemisphere leaf-nosed bats). Yet the fossil re...