Vulcanops
| Vulcanops Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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.