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Archerops, a new annectent hipposiderid genus (Mammalia: Microchiroptera) from the Australian Miocene

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

S. J. Hand  and
J. A. W. Kirsch
S. J. Hand
Affiliation:
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
J. A. W. Kirsch
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin Zoological Museum, 250 North Mills Street, Madison 53706
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Abstract

A new genus and species of hipposiderid bat is described from an early to middle Miocene cave deposit (AL90 Site, estimated to be between 15 and 20 million years old) at Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia. Archerops annectens new genus and species is interpreted to be most closely related to species of the Asian genera Coelops and Paracoelops and southeastern Africa's Cloeotis percivali, none of which has a fossil record. The new Australian fossil bat: 1) shares a number of apomorphies with species of Coelops, Paracoelops, and Cloeotis; 2) lacks striking autapomorphies characterizing each of the three extant genera; 3) exhibits few autapomorphies its own; and 4) forms a structural intermediate between plesiomorphic Tertiary hipposiderids (e.g., Brachipposideros species) and the aberrant Coelops, Paracoelops, and Cloeotis species.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 77 , Issue 6 , November 2003 , pp. 1139 - 1151
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