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High bat (Chiroptera) diversity in the Early Eocene of India.
Die Naturwissenschaften - 1 Dec 2007
Smith Thierry, Rana Rajendra S, Missiaen Pieter, Rose Kenneth D, Sahni Ashok, Singh Hukam, Singh Lachham
Abstract excerpt
The geographic origin of bats is still unknown, and fossils of earliest bats are rare and poorly diversified, with, maybe, the exception of Europe. The earliest bats are recorded from the Early Eocene of North America, Europe, North Africa and Australia where they seem to appear suddenly and simultaneously. Until now, the oldest record in Asia was from the Middle Eocene. In this paper, we report the discovery of...
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