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Palaeochiropterygidae 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.
The 2003 discovery of an early fossil bat from the 52-million-year-old Green River Formation, Onychonycteris finneyi, indicates that flight evolved before echolocative abilities. [27] [28] Onychonycteris had claws on all five of its fingers, whereas modern bats have at most two claws on two digits of each hand.
Palaeochiropteryx (/ ˌ p æ l i oʊ k aɪ ˈ r ɒ p t ər ɪ k s / PAL-ee-oh-ky-ROP-tər-iks) is an extinct genus of bat from the Middle Eocene of Europe and North America.It contains three very similar species – Palaeochiropteryx tupaiodon and Palaeochiropteryx spiegeli, both from the famous Messel Pit of Germany, as well as Palaeochiropteryx sambuceus from the Sheep Pass Formation (Nevada ...
Onychonycteris finneyi was the strongest evidence so far in the debate on whether bats developed echolocation before or after they evolved the ability to fly. O. finneyi had well-developed wings, and could clearly fly, but lacked the enlarged cochlea of all extant echolocating bats, closely resembling the old world fruit bats which do not echolocate. [1]
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In addition, several fossil genera are known; the oldest fossils attributed to the family are from the middle Eocene of Europe. [4] In their 1997 Classification of Mammals , Malcolm C. McKenna and Susan K. Bell proposed a division of Hipposideridae (called Rhinonycterinae in their work) into three tribes , one with two subtribes, [ 5 ] but ...
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Multiple exceptionally preserved specimens, among the best preserved bat fossils, are known from the Green River Formation of North America. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The best known species is I. index. [ 3 ] Fragmentary material from France has also been tentatively placed within Icaronycteris as the second species I. menui . [ 4 ]