Palaeochiropterygidae
| Palaeochiropterygidae Temporal range: Ypresian to Lutetian (Middle Eocene) | |
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| Palaeochiropteryx tupaiodon from the Jura Museum of Eichstätt, Germany. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| (unranked): | Microchiropteramorpha |
| Family: | †Palaeochiropterygidae Revilliod, 1917 |
| Type genus | |
| †Palaeochiropteryx Revilliod, 1917 | |
| Genera[1] | |
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Palaeochirpterygidae is a family of extinct bats. It was originally erected by the Swiss naturalist Pierre Revilliod in 1917 after discoveries of Palaeochiropteryx fossils from the Messel Pit of Germany. Palaeochirpterygidae was merged into Archaeonycteridae by Kurten and Anderson in 1980, but modern authorities specializing in bat fossils maintain the distinction between the two.[1][2] It was classified to the unranked clade Microchiropteramorpha by Smith et al. in 2007.[3]
They existed from the Ypresian to the Lutetian ages of the Middle Eocene epoch (55.8 to 40.4 million years ago).
Genera
It contains the following genera. The list may be incomplete or inaccurate:[1][2]
- †Cecilionycteris Heller, 1935
- †Lapichiropteryx Tong, 1997
- †Microchiropteryx Smith et al., 2007
- †Microchiropteryx folieae Smith et al., 2007 - Vastan Lignite Mines (Ypresian), India
- †Palaeochiropteryx Revilliod, 1917
- †Palaeochiropteryx tupaiodon Revilliod, 1917 - Messel Pit (Lutetian), Germany
- †Palaeochiropteryx spiegeli Revilliod, 1917 - Messel Pit (Lutetian), Germany
References
- 1 2 3 "Palaeochiropterygidae". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved May 19, 2011.
- 1 2 Thierry Smith; Rajendra S. Rana; Pieter Missiaen; Kenneth D. Rose; Ashok Sahni; Hukam Singh & Lachham Singh (2007). "High bat (Chiroptera) diversity in the Early Eocene of India". Naturwissenschaften. Springer-Verlag. 94: 1003–1009. doi:10.1007/s00114-007-0280-9. PMID 17671774. Retrieved May 19, 2011.
- ↑ Nancy B. Simmons & Tenley Conway (1998). "Higher-level Classification of Bats". Tree of Life web project. Retrieved May 17, 2011.
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