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Archaeonycteridae ✝

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Cecilionycteris sp.

Mücheln, Saalekreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Cecilionycteris sp.

Mücheln, Saalekreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Cecilionycteris sp.

Mücheln, Saalekreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	178564	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=178564

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Chiroptera : Archaeonycteridae

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
-	Laurasiatheria	Waddell et al. 1999
-	Scrotifera	Waddell et al. 1999
order	Chiroptera	Blumenbach 1779
-	Microchiropteramorpha
family	Archaeonycteridae	(Revilliod 1917)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Archaeonycteridae	family	belongs to Icaronycteroidea	stated without evidence	Kurten and Anderson, 1980
Archaeonycteridae	family	belongs to Microchiropteramorpha	stated without evidence	Smith et al., 2007

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

56.0 - 48.6 Ma
Eocene

Last Recorded Appearance

41.3 - 37.2 Ma
Eocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Chiroptera)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

insectivore (based on Chiroptera)

Reproduction

viviparous (based on Chiroptera)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

T. Smith, R. S. Rana, and P. Missiaen, K. D. Rose, A. Sahni, H. Singh, L. Singh. 2007. High bat (Chiroptera) diversity in the Early Eocene of India. Naturwissenschaften 94(12):1003-1009

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Archaeonycteris ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	8	56.0 Ma Paleocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Cecilionycteris ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	47.8 Ma Eocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Matthesia ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	47.8 Ma Eocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Palaeochiropteryx ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	48.6 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Protonycteris ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1917	Archaeonycterididae Revilliod p. 190
1980	Archaeonycterididae Kurten and Anderson
2007	Archaeonycteridae Smith et al. p. 1004
2010	Archaeonycteridae Harrison and Hooker p. 2

References

Smith T., Rana R. S., et al (2007) High bat (Chiroptera) diversity in the Early Eocene of India, Naturwissenschaften 94 12, 1003-1009 doi:10.1007/s00114-007-0280-9

Kurten B., Anderson E. (1980) , Pleistocene mammals of North America, 1-442

Harrison D. L., Hooker J. J. (2010) Late Middle Eocene Bats from the Creechbarrow Limestone Formation, Dorset, Southern England with Description of a New Species of Archaeonycteris (Chiroptera: Archaeonycteridae), Acta Chiropterologica 12 1, 1-18

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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