Brachipposideros

Brachipposideros
Temporal range: Burdigalian 20.4–15.9 Ma
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Hipposideridae
Genus: Brachipposideros
Sigé, 1968
Species
  • Brachipposideros aguilari
  • Brachipposideros collongensis
  • Brachipposideros dechaseauxi
  • Brachipposideros nooraleebus

and others

Brachipposideros is an extinct genus of leaf-nosed bats known from Riversleigh, north-western Queensland, Australia and the Languedoc-Roussillon Region, France. The fossils date to the late Oligocene to early Miocene.

References

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