Wyonycteris Gingerich 1987 (placental)

Mammalia - Soricomorpha - Nyctitheriidae

Full reference: P. D. Gingerich. 1987. Early Eocene bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) and other vertebrates in freshwater limestones of the Willlwood Formation, Clark's Fork Basin, Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 27(11):275-320

Parent taxon: Placentidentinae according to M. F. Jones and K. C. Beard 2023

See also Beard and Dawson 2009, Gingerich 1987, Gingerich and Smith 2006, Gunnell et al. 2008, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Smith 1995

Sister taxa: Ceutholestes, Placentidens, Plagioctenoides, Pontifactor, Remiculus

Subtaxa: Wyonycteris chalix Wyonycteris galensis Wyonycteris kingi Wyonycteris microtis Wyonycteris primitivus Wyonycteris richardi

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Type: Wyonycteris chalix

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of Belgium (1 collection), France (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (5: Mississippi, Wyoming)

• Clarkforkian of United States (1: Wyoming)

• Paleocene to Eocene of United States (1: Wyoming)

• Paleocene of United States (2: Wyoming)

Total: 13 collections including 15 occurrences

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