@article {4307, title = {Hipposideridae (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from the Mediterranean middle and late Neogene, and the evolution of the genera Hipposideros and Asellia}, journal = {Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology}, volume = {2}, number = {3}, year = {1982}, month = {1982b}, pages = {372-385}, abstract = {New fossils from the Burdigalian locality of Port-la-Nouvelle (southern France) add to our knowledge of the Hipposideridae. Four species of this family are represented, including a new species of the subgenus (Brachipposideros Sige (Hipposideros aguilari sp. nov.)), H. vetus (Lavocat) from Beni Mellal (Miocene of Morocco) and H. cf. vetus from Sete (late Pliocene of France), formerly attributed to Asellia, are placed in the subgenus Syndesmotis Peters, which includes the Recent East African species H. (S.) megalotis. The following genera and subgenera are recognized in this study: genus Hipposideros including the subgenera Hipposideros, Brachipposideros, Syndesmotis and Pseudorhinolopus, and the genus Asellia. Anatomy of teeth and jaws suggests new phyletic interpretations: Pseudorhinolophus could be ancestral to Asellia, and Brachipposideros to Syndesmotis; Pseudorhinolophus and Brachipposideros may both be represented in the Recent fauna by large and small Hipposideros, respectively; Brachipposideros is unlikely to have originated from Pseudorhinolophus, and neither of these genera can be derived from the Paleogene European genus Palaeophyllophora Revilliod.}, keywords = {Africa, biogeography, Chiroptera, distribution, Djibouti, Europe, evolution, Faunistik, Flederm{\"a}use, fossils, France, Hipposideridae, Hipposideros aguilari sp. nov., Hipposideros megalotis, Mammalia, Morocco, morphology, palaeontology, phylogeny, speciation, species description, systematics, taxonomy, Verbreitung, zoogeography}, url = {Legendre 1982b.pdf http://www.jstor.org/stable/4522906}, author = {Legendre, S.} }