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Three new early middle Eocene bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Elderberry Canyon, Nevada, USA

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Three new early middle Eocene bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Elderberry Canyon, Nevada, USA / Nicholas J. Czaplewski, Gary S. Morgan, Robert J. Emry, Paul M. Gignac, and Haley D. O'Brien.
Author
Czaplewski, Nicholas J.
Publication
  • Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Scholarly Press, 2022.
  • ©2022

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  • Morgan, Gary S.
  • Emry, Robert J.
  • Gignac, Paul M.
  • O'Brien, Haley D.
  • Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, issuing body.
Description
26 pages : illustrations (mainly color); 28 cm.
Summary
"We report three new taxa of bats from the late early Eocene to earliest middle Eocene (Bridgerian biochrons Br1b-Br2; ca. 50-48 Ma) Elderberry Canyon Quarry, Sheep Pass Formation, in the Egan Mountain Range of eastern Nevada, USA. Volactrix simmonsae gen. et sp. nov., represented by two dentaries, is tentatively referred to the family Onychonycteridae and exhibits a p3 that is much smaller than the p2, a semi-molariform p4, and lower molars with a postcristid configuration intermediate between necromantodonty and nyctalodonty. The genus Palaeochiropteryx, a palaeochiropterygid otherwise known from the early and middle Eocene of Europe, is the first representative of its genus and of the family Palaeochiropterygidae outside Eurasia and the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent. Palaeochiropteryx is represented at the site by a partial skeleton with crushed skull and two left dentaries (one unexposed within the same limestone block but revealed by microCT scanning) and is formally named Palaeochiropteryx sambuceus sp. nov. A third taxon, Sonor handae gen. et sp. nov., is a probable vespertilionid, evidenced by a dentary fragment with double-rooted p3 and myotodont lower molar morphology, and provides the earliest occurrence of the family Vespertilionidae in the western hemisphere. Despite the small number of specimens, these three new taxa comprise the most diverse Eocene assemblage of bats yet found in a single quarry in the western hemisphere"--
Series Statement
Smithsonian contributions to paleobiology, 0081-0266 ; number 106
Uniform Title
Smithsonian contributions to paleobiology ; no. 106.
Subject
  • From 40 to 55 million years ago
  • Bats, Fossil > Nevada > Elderberry Canyon
  • Paleontology > Nevada > Elderberry Canyon > Eocene
  • Bats, Fossil
  • Eocene Geologic Epoch
  • Paleontology
  • Nevada > Elderberry Canyon
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
INTRODUCTION -- MATERIALS AND METHODS -- SYSTEMATIC PALEONTOLOGY. Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758, Order Chiroptera Blumenback, 1779, Family ?Onychonycteridae, Genus Volactrix gen. nov., Volactrix simmonsae gen. et sp. nov -- Family Palaeochiropterygidae Revilliod, 1917, Genus Palaeochiropteryx Revilliod, 1917, Palaeochiropteryx sambuceus sp. nov. -- Superfamily Vespertilionoidea Gray, 1821, Family Vespertilionidae Gray, 1821, Genus Sonor gen. nov., Sonor handae gen. et sp. nov. -- Family indeterminate -- DISCUSSION.
Call Number
JFF 23-976
ISBN
  • 9781944466565
  • 1944466568
  • 9781944466572 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2022009622
OCLC
1334108919
Author
Czaplewski, Nicholas J., author.
Title
Three new early middle Eocene bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Elderberry Canyon, Nevada, USA / Nicholas J. Czaplewski, Gary S. Morgan, Robert J. Emry, Paul M. Gignac, and Haley D. O'Brien.
Publisher
Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Scholarly Press, 2022.
Copyright Date
©2022
Type of Content
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Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Smithsonian contributions to paleobiology, 0081-0266 ; number 106
Smithsonian contributions to paleobiology ; no. 106.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Note
Copyright © 2022 Smithsonian Institution 2022
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Chronological Term
From 40 to 55 million years ago
Added Author
Morgan, Gary S., author.
Emry, Robert J., author.
Gignac, Paul M., author.
O'Brien, Haley D., author.
Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, issuing body.
Other Form:
Online version: Czaplewski, Nicholas J. Three new early middle Eocene bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Elderberry Canyon, Nevada, USA Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Scholarly Press, 2022 9781944466572 (DLC) 2022009623
Sudoc No.
SI 1.30:106
Research Call Number
JFF 23-976
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