Brachipposideros is an extinct genus of leaf-nosed bats known from Riversleigh, north-western Queensland, Australia and the Languedoc-Roussillon Region, France. The fossils date to the late Oligocene to early Miocene.
| Brachipposideros Temporal range: Burdigalian
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Rhinonycteridae |
| Genus: | †Brachipposideros Sigé, 1968 |
The species Brachipposideros nooraleebus was the first bat fossil to discovered and named in Australia, it is also the first of genus to be discovered outside of France.[1][2] The fossil was found to resemble the orange leaf-nosed bat Rhinonicteris aurantia, an extant species that occurs in caves of Northern Queensland, than the type species of genus Hipposideros.[3]
The dentition is the same as many other bats, and accords with the dental formula of hipposiderids:[2] I1/2 C1/1 P1-2/2-3 M3/3
The species assigned to this genus include,[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ "ABC Science - Australian Beasts - Fact files - Riversleigh Leaf-nosed Bat". www.abc.net.au. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
- ^ a b Musser, Anne (2018). "Brachipposideros nooraleebus". The Australian Museum.
- ^ Hand, Suzanne J. (1993). "First skull of a species of Hipposlderos (Brachipposideros) (Microchiroptera: Hipposideridae). from australian Miocene sediments". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 33: 179–192. ISSN 0079-8835.
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