Philisidae

Philisidae is an extinct family of bats of the suborder Microchiroptera that lived between the Eocene to the Late Miocene in the continent of Africa.

Philisidae
Temporal range:
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Suborder: Microchiroptera
Family: †Philisidae
Sigé, 1985
Genera

See the text

Genera

Currently the following genera are known:[1][2][3][4]

  • †Dizzya Sigé, 1991
  • †Philisis Sigé, 1985 (type genus)
  • †Scotophilisis Horáček, Fejfar & Hulva, 2006
  • †Vampyravus Schlosser, 1910
  • †Witwatia Gunnell et al., 2008

References
  1. Sigé, B. 1985. Les chiroptères oligocènes du Fayum, Egypte. Geologica et Palaeontologica, 19:161- 189.
  2. Sigé, B. 1991. Rhinolophoidea et Vespertilionoidea (Chiroptera) du Chambi (Eocène inférieur de Tunisie)–Aspects biostratigraphique, biogéographique et paléoécologique de l'origine des chiroptères modernes. Neue Jahrbücher für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen, 182:355–376.
  3. Gunnell, Gregg F.; Simons, Elwyn L.; Seiffert, Erik R. (2008). "New bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera from the late Eocene and early Oligocene, Fayum Depression, Egypt". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 28 (1): 1–11. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2008)28[1:NBMCFT]2.0.CO;2.
  4. Anthony Ravel; Laurent Marivaux; Rodolphe Tabuce; Mustapha Ben Haj Ali; El Mabrouk Essid; Monique Vianey-Liaud (2012). "A new large philisid (Mammalia, Chiroptera, Vespertilionoidea) from the late Early Eocene of Chambi, Tunisia". Palaeontology. 55 (5): 1035–1041. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2012.01160.x.


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