Koopmanycteris

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Koopmanycteris
Temporal range: Oligocene
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Mormoopidae
Genus: Koopmanycteris
Species:
K. palaeomormoops
Binomial name
Koopmanycteris palaeomormoops
Morgan et. al., 2019

Koopmanycteris is an extinct genus of bat that lived in Florida during the Oligocene epoch. It contains a single species, K. palaeomormoops. [1]

References

  1. Morgan, Gary S.; Czaplewski, Nicholas J.; Simmons, Nancy B. (17 June 2019). "A New Mormoopid Bat from the Oligocene (Whitneyan and Early Arikareean) of Florida, and Phylogenetic Relationships of the Major Clades of Mormoopidae (Mammalia: Chiroptera)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History . 2019 (434): 1. doi:10.1206/0003-0090.434.1.1. ISSN   0003-0090 . Retrieved 6 February 2025 via BioOne Digital Library.