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An Australian Miocene Brachipposideros (Mammalia, Chiroptera) related to Miocene representatives from France
Published online: 15/12/1982
Keywords:
Australia; bats; Chiroptera; Miocene
https://doi.org/10.18563/pv.12.5.149-172
References: 12
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Bernard Sigé, Suzanne J. Hand and Michael Archer, 1982. An Australian Miocene Brachipposideros (Mammalia, Chiroptera) related to Miocene representatives from France. PalaeoVertebrata 12 (5): 149-172. doi: 10.18563/pv.12.5.149-172
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Abstract
A new middle Miocene hipposiderid bat is described from a limestone deposit on Riversleigh Station in north-western Queensland. Hipposideros (Brachipposideros) nooraleebus n. sp. is the first record of this subgenus from anywhere in the world outside of France. The palaeoecological setting of the fossil bats appears to have been a relatively quiet, sunny lime-enriched tropical pool that contained tortoises, crocodiles and fish. It is possible that the bats were washed into the pool from an adjacent cave.
The Riversleigh bat most closely resembles the French Burdigalian (early middle Miocene) bat H. (B.) aguilari. It is also possible that it may have been closely related to the original Australian hipposiderid stock that ultimately gave rise to the endemic monotÿpic Rhinonycteris aurantius. The disjunct distribution of species of H. (Brachipposideros) suggests that representatives of this subgenus will be found in at least tropical southern Asia.
Published in Vol. 12, Fasc. 5 (1982)
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