caa a22 4500 388017775 CHVBK 20180307124915.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199805 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022336000024318 doi S0022336000024318 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022336000024318 Mystacinid bats (Microchiroptera) from the Australian Tertiary [Elektronische Daten] [S. J. Hand, P. Murray, D. Megirian, M. Archer, H. Godthelp] A new genus and three new species of the microchiropteran family Mystacinidae are described from Miocene freshwater limestones in northern Australia. The type species, Icarops breviceps new genus and species, is from the middle Miocene Bullock Creek deposit, Northern Territory; I. aenae new species and I. paradox new species are from the slightly older (early Miocene) Wayne's Wok and Neville's Garden Sites at Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Fossil mystacinids are rare in each deposit and represented so far only by lower teeth and dentary fragments. They are characterized by a suite of apomorphies shared only with Quaternary mystacinids endemic to New Zealand. The family Mystacinidae has no pre-Pleistocene record and its relationships to other groups of bats remain unclear. Possible sister-groups include South American noctilionoids and the cosmopolitan molossoids and/or vespertilionoids. The presence of plesiomorphic mystacinids in the Australian Tertiary suggests an Australian origin for the family. Copyright © The Paleontological Society Hand S. J. School of Biological Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia aut Murray P. Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences, GPO Box 2109, Alice Springs, Northern Territory 0871, Australia aut Megirian D. Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences, PO Box 4646, Darwin, Northern Territory 0801, Australia aut Archer M. School of Biological Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia aut Godthelp H. School of Biological Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia aut Journal of Paleontology Cambridge University Press 72/3(1998-05), 538-545 0022-3360 72:3<538 1998 72 JPA https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022336000024318 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022336000024318 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hand S. J. School of Biological Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Murray P. Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences, GPO Box 2109, Alice Springs, Northern Territory 0871, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Megirian D. Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences, PO Box 4646, Darwin, Northern Territory 0801, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Archer M. School of Biological Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Godthelp H. School of Biological Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Paleontology Cambridge University Press 72/3(1998-05), 538-545 0022-3360 72:3<538 1998 72 JPA CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge