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
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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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