Icaronycteris index Jepsen 1966 (bat)

Mammalia - Chiroptera - Icaronycteridae

Full reference: G. L. Jepsen. 1966. Early Eocene bat from Wyoming. Science 154(3754):1333-1339

Belongs to Icaronycteris according to G. L. Jepsen 1966

Sister taxa: Icaronycteris gunnelli, Icaronycteris menui, Icaronycteris sigei

Type specimen: Princeton University Museum of Natural History No. 18150, a skeleton (skeleton lacking right fibula and several toe bones). Its type locality is Icaronycteris Type Locality, which is in a Wasatchian lacustrine - small marl in the Green River Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: volant insectivore

Distribution: found only at Icaronycteris Type Locality

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