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A new, large-bodied omnivorous bat (Noctilionoidea: Mystacinidae) reveals lost morphological and ecological diversity since the Miocene in New Zealand.
Scientific reports - 10 Jan 2018
Hand Suzanne J, Beck Robin M D, Archer Michael, Simmons Nancy B, Gunnell Gregg F, Scofield R Paul, Tennyson Alan J D, De Pietri Vanesa L, Salisbury Steven W, Worthy Trevor H
Abstract excerpt
A new genus and species of fossil bat is described from New Zealand's only pre-Pleistocene Cenozoic terrestrial fauna, the early Miocene St Bathans Fauna of Central Otago, South Island. Bayesian total evidence phylogenetic analysis places this new Southern Hemisphere taxon among the burrowing bats (mystacinids) of New Zealand and Australia, although its lower dentition also resembles Africa's endemic...
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