| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1985 |
| Authors: | S. Legendre |
| Journal: | Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen |
| Volume: | 170 |
| Pagination: | 205-227 |
| Date Published: | 1985 |
| Keywords: | biogeography, Caenozoic, Chiroptera, fossils, Molossidae, palaeontology, systematics, taxonomy |
| Abstract: | The revision of all the fossil molossid bats known leads us to settle the systematic status of the different populations. These are: Cuvierimops parisiensis and C. div. sp. (late Eocene and early Oligocene, Europe), Mormopterus (Hydromops) faustoi (Oligocene, Brazil), M. (Hydromops) stehlini, M. (H.) helveticus, Tadarida engesseri, T. leptognatha, T. (Mops) monslapidensis, Rhizomops cf. brasiliensis (Miocene, Europe, and Africa for T. engesseri). The genus Wallia (Uintan, Saskatchewan) is reassigned to the Molossidae, Thus, a phylogenetic reconstruction is proposed. |