Dizzya
| Dizzya Temporal range: Eocene | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Suborder: | Microchiroptera |
| Family: | Philisidae |
| Genus: | Dizzya Sigé, 1991 |
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Dizzya is an extinct, monotypic genus of bat that occurred in the Chambi region, Tunisia, in the Middle Eocene. It was described based on a single upper molar, a lower dentary with two broken teeth, and a humerus.[1] It is the smallest and, along with Witwatia sigei, the oldest representative of the Philisidae, an extinct family of bats related to the Vespertilionidae.[2]
References
- ↑ Sigé, B. (1991). "Rhinolophoidea et Vespertilionoidea (Chiroptera) du Chambi (Eocène inférieur de Tunisie). Aspect biostratigraphique, biogéographique et paléoécologique de l'origine des chiròpteres modernes.". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläntologie-Abhandlungen 182: 355–376.
- ↑ Ravel, Anthony; Marivaux L.; Tabuce R.; Ali M.B.H.; Essid E.M.; Vianey-Liaud M. (2015). "A new large philisid (Mammalia, Chiroptera, Vespertilionoidea) from the late early Eocene of Chambi, Tunisia". Palaeontology 55 (2): 1035–1041. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2012.01160.x.
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