Palaeonycteris

Palaeonycteris is an extinct genus of the horseshoe bat family. It is the only fossil genus of the horseshoe bats, and the only other genus in the family besides Rhinolophus. It is known from the Oligocene of Europe.[1] The type species of the genus is Palaeonycteris robustus.[2]

Palaeonycteris
Upper and lower maxilla of Palaeonycteris robustus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Rhinolophidae
Genus: †Palaeonycteris
Pomel, 1853

Several species have been assigned to this genus:[3]

  • Palaeonycteris insignis von Meyer, 1845[4]
  • Palaeonycteris praecox von Meyer, 1845[4]
  • Palaeonycteris robustus Pomel, 1853[2]

References
  1. Hall, Leslie (1989). "Rhinolophidae". In Walton, D.W.; Richardson, B.J. (eds.). Fauna of Australia (PDF). AGPS Canberra.CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  2. Palmer, T. S. (1904). "A List of the Genera and Families of Mammal". North American Fauna (23): 503.
  3. Brinkkötter, J. J.; Martin, T. (2015). "Small mammals and stratigraphic position of the "Großberg-Bank" (Lower Oberrad Formation, MN1, early Miocene) at Laubenheim Quarry in the Mainz Basin, SW Germany, and their implications for early Miocene biostratigraphy". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 89 (4): 995–1022. doi:10.1007/s12542-015-0268-2. S2CID 127853642.
  4. Trouessart, Edouard Louis (1899). Catalogus mammalium tam viventium quam fossilium a doctore E.-L. Trouessart (in Latin). R. Friedländer & sohn. p. 124.


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