Archaeonycteridae
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| Archaeonycteris fossil from the Natural History Museum of Milan | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| (unranked): | Microchiropteramorpha |
| Family: | †Archaeonycteridae (Revilliod, 1917) |
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| <templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>†Archaeonycteris Revilliod, 1917
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Archaeonycterididae Revilliod, 1917 |
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Archaeonycteridae (formerly spelled Archaeonycterididae) is a family of extinct bats. It was originally erected by the Swiss naturalist Pierre Revilliod as Archaeonycterididae to hold the genus Archaeonycteris. It was formerly classified under the superfamily Icaronycteroidea (disused) by Kurten and Anderson in 1980. In 2007, the spelling was corrected to Archaeonycteridae and it was reclassified to the unranked clade Microchiropteramorpha by Smith et al..[1][2] The family Palaeochiropterygidae was also merged into Archaeonycteridae by Kurten and Anderson, but modern authorities specializing in bat fossils maintain the distinction between the two.[3][4]
They existed from the Ypresian to the Lutetian ages of the Middle Eocene epoch (55.8 to 40.4 million years ago).[1]
Genera
It contains four genera. The following list may be incomplete or inaccurate:[1]
- <templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>†Archaeonycteris Revilliod, 1917
- <templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>†Archaeonycteris trigonodon Revilliod, 1917 - Messel Pit (Lutetian), Germany
- <templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>†Archaeonycteris pollex Storch & Habersetzer, 1988 - Messel Pit (Lutetian), Germany
- <templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>†Archaeonycteris brailloni Russell et al., 1973 - Avenay quarry (Ypresian), France
- <templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>†Archaeonycteris storchi Smith et al., 2007 - Vastan Lignite Mines (Ypresian), India
- <templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>†Australonycteris Hand, Novacek, Godthelp & Archer, 1994
- <templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>†Australonycteris clarkae Hand, Novacek, Godthelp & Archer, 1994 - Murgon fossil site (Ypresian), Australia
- <templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>†Matthesia Smith and Storch 1981
- <templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>†Matthesia germanica
- <templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>†Matthesia insolita
- <templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>†Protonycteris Smith et al., 2007
- <templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>†Protonycteris gunnelli Smith et al., 2007 - Vastan Lignite Mine (Ypresian), India
References
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