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Palaeochiropteryx (/ ˌ p æ l i oʊ k aɪ ˈ r ɒ p t ər ɪ k s / PAL-ee-oh-ky-ROP-tər-iks) is an extinct genus of bat from the Middle Eocene of Europe and North America.It contains three very similar species – Palaeochiropteryx tupaiodon and Palaeochiropteryx spiegeli, both from the famous Messel Pit of Germany, as well as Palaeochiropteryx sambuceus from the Sheep Pass Formation (Nevada ...
Fossil shark spines found in Michigan are usually the remains of ctenacanths and cladodonts. Bradyodont shark teeth have also been discovered in Michigan, however, it's also possible that these teeth were shed by animals more closely related to holocephalans than true sharks. [6] Tabulate and tetra- corals disappeared from Michigan during the ...
Icaronycteris is an extinct genus of microchiropteran (echolocating) bat that lived in the early Eocene, approximately , making it the earliest bat genus known from complete skeletons, and the earliest known bat from North America.
The two oldest-known fossil skeletons of bats, unearthed in southwestern Wyoming and dating to at least 52 million years ago, are providing insight into the early evolution of these flying mammals ...
Palaeochiropteryx tupaiodon is the most common mammal found at Messel. An additional species of Palaeochiropteryx, P. sambuceus, has been described from the middle Eocene of North America. [4] All other species belonging to Palaeochiropterygidae are known only from isolated teeth and jaw fragments from Europe, India, Turkey, and possibly North ...
This list of the prehistoric life of Michigan contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of ...
He also performed the first census of local mammoth remains, noting that 32 Jefferson mammoths had been discovered in Michigan. [4] Hatt also formally described a partial mastodon skull now catalogued as CIPS 827 which had been discovered in Pontiac. [1] Fossils of a Jefferson mammoth were discovered in Gratiot County. [4] 1963
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