Icarops

Icarops
Temporal range: Early Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Mystacinidae
Genus: †Icarops
Hand et al., 1998
Species
  • I. aenae
  • I. breviceps
  • I. paradox [1]

Icarops is an extinct genus of Mystacinidae bats with three described species. The genus is known from fossils found at Riversleigh, north-western Queensland, and Bullock Creek, Northern Territories, Australia. The fossils date from the late Oligocene to early Miocene.[2]

The name is derived "From Icarus, the mythological Greek who flew towards the sun, in reference to the ancient mystacinid that flew eastwards from Australia to New Zealand." [2]

References

  1. ↑ Mikko's Phylogeny Archive Yangochiroptera. Accessed 2008-01-11
  2. 1 2 Hand, S.J.; et al. (1998). "Mystacinid Bats (Microchiroptera) from the Australian Tertiary". Journal of Paleontology 72 (3): 538–545. JSTOR 1306652.
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