A 50-million-year-old, three-dimensionally preserved bat skull supports an early origin for modern echolocation

SJ Hand, J Maugoust, RMD Beck, MJ Orliac - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Bats are among the most recognizable, numerous, and widespread of all mammals. But
much of their fossil record is missing, and bat origins remain poorly understood, as do the …

Global completeness of the bat fossil record

TP Eiting, GF Gunnell - Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 2009 - Springer
Bats are unique among mammals in their use of powered flight and their widespread
capacity for laryngeal echolocation. Understanding how and when these and other abilities …

New early Eocene mammalian fauna from western Patagonia, Argentina

MF Tejedor, FJ Goin, JN Gelfo, G López, M Bond… - American Museum …, 2009 - BioOne
Two new fossil mammal localities from the Paleogene of central-western Patagonia are
preliminarily described as the basis for a new possible biochronological unit for the early …

Earliest South American paucituberculatans and their significance in the understanding of 'pseudodiprotodont'marsupial radiations

FJ Goin, AM Candela, MA Abello… - Zoological Journal of …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
We describe the oldest Paucituberculata marsupials, from the La Barda and Las Flores
localities (Argentina; Late Palaeocene, and Early—Middle Eocene), as well as from the …

The earliest Asian bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) address major gaps in bat evolution

MF Jones, Q Li, X Ni, KC Beard - Biology Letters, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Bats dispersed widely after evolving the capacity for powered flight, and fossil bats are
known from the early Eocene of most continents. Until now, however, bats have been …

Facies interpretation and geochronology of diverse Eocene floras and faunas, northwest Chubut Province, Patagonia, Argentina

J Gosses, AR Carroll, BT Bruck, BS Singer… - GSA …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Eocene Huitrera Formation of northwestern Patagonia, Argentina, is renowned
for its diverse, informative, and outstandingly preserved fossil biotas. In northwest Chubut …

A new early Miocene bat (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from Panama confirms middle Cenozoic chiropteran dispersal between the Americas

GS Morgan, NJ Czaplewski, AF Rincon, JI Bloch… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2023 - Springer
Fossils of an insectivorous bat from the early Miocene of Panama are described as a new
genus and species, Americanycteris cyrtodon (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae: Phyllostominae) …

[BOOK][B] Evolutionary history of bats: fossils, molecules and morphology

GF Gunnell, NB Simmons - 2012 - books.google.com
Advances in morphological and molecular methods continue to uncover new information on
the origin and evolution of bats. Presenting some of the most remarkable discoveries and …

A new primitive bat from the earliest Eocene of Europe

R Tabuce, MT Antunes, B Sigé - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
DISCUSSION The association of several morphological characters observed in
Archaeonycteris? praecursor attests to its chiropteran status: the sectorial cusps, the …

The oldest African bat from the early Eocene of El Kohol (Algeria)

A Ravel, L Marivaux, R Tabuce, M Adaci… - …, 2011 - Springer
Abstract The Afro-Arabian Paleogene fossil record of Chiroptera is very poor. In North Africa
and Arabia, this record is limited, thus far, to a few localities mainly in Tunisia (Chambi, late …