Rhinolophus dehmi Ziegler 1993 (horseshoe bat)

Mammalia - Chiroptera - Rhinolophidae

Full reference: R. Ziegler. 1993. Die Chiroptera (Mammalia) aus dem Untermiozän von Wintershof-West bei Eichstätt (Bayern). Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und historische Geologie 33:119-154

Belongs to Rhinolophus according to R. Ziegler 1993

Sister taxa: Rhinolophus blasii, Rhinolophus borneensis, Rhinolophus contrarius, Rhinolophus csakvarensis, Rhinolophus delphinensis, Rhinolophus estramontis, Rhinolophus euryale, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum, Rhinolophus grivensis, Rhinolophus hanaki, Rhinolophus hipposideros, Rhinolophus kowalskii, Rhinolophus lemanensis, Rhinolophus macrorhinus, Rhinolophus pleistocaenicus, Rhinolophus postdelphinensis, Rhinolophus priscus, Rhinolophus pumilio, Rhinolophus rouxii, Rhinolophus wenzensis, Rhinolophus yongyuthi

Type specimen: BSP 1937 II 19737, a maxilla (Maxilla fragment with C-M3). Its type locality is Wintershof-West, which is in a MN 3 fissure fill horizon in Germany.

Ecology: volant insectivore

Distribution: found only at Wintershof-West

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