Marnenycteris

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Marnenycteris
Temporal range: Ypresian
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Onychonycteridae
Genus: Marnenycteris
Species:
M. michauxi
Binomial name
Marnenycteris michauxi
Hand et. al., 2015

Marneycteris is an extinct genus of onychonycterid that inhabited France during the Eocene epoch. It contains a single species, M. michauxi. [1]

References

  1. Hand, Suzanne J.; Sigé, Bernard; Archer, Michael; Gunnell, Gregg F.; Simmons, Nancy B. (21 January 2015). "A New Early Eocene (Ypresian) Bat from Pourcy, Paris Basin, France, with Comments on Patterns of Diversity in the Earliest Chiropterans" . Journal of Mammalian Evolution . 22 (3): 343–354. doi:10.1007/s10914-015-9286-9. ISSN   1064-7554 . Retrieved 4 February 2025 via Springer Nature Link.