- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One Tectonics and Geomorphology of Africa during the Phanerozoic
- Two Chronology of Paleogene Mammal Localities
- Three Chronology of Neogene Mammal Localities
- Four Global and African Regional Climate during the Cenozoic
- Five A Review of the Cenozoic Vegetation History of Africa
- Twenty-Six Creodonta
- Twenty-Seven Prionogalidae (Mammalia <i>Incertae Sedis</i>)
- Twenty-Eight Primitive Ungulates (“Condylarthra” and Stem Paenungulata)
- Twenty-Nine Neogene Insectivora
- Thirty Chiroptera
- Thirty-One Pholidota
- Thirty-Two Carnivora
- Thirty-Three Chalicotheriidae
- Thirty-Four Rhinocerotidae
- Thirty-Five Equidae
- Thirty-Six Tragulidae
- Thirty-Seven Pecora Incertae Sedis
- Thirty-Eight Bovidae
- Thirty-Nine Giraffoidea
- Forty Cervidae
- Forty-One Camelidae
- Forty-Two Suoidea
- Forty-Three Anthracotheriidae
- Forty-Four Hippopotamidae
- Forty-Five Cetacea
- Forty-Six Systematics of Endemic African Mammals
- Forty-Seven Mammal Species Richness in Africa
- Forty-Eight Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotopes in East African Mammals: Modern and Fossil
- Index
Chiroptera
Chiroptera
- Chapter:
- (p.581) Thirty Chiroptera
- Source:
- Cenozoic Mammals of Africa
- Author(s):
Gregg F. Gunnell
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
The fossil record of bats is relatively poor, although there are places (for example, the Quercy karst deposits in France) where bat fossils can be quite common. Except for some exceptional preservation in lagerstätten such as Messel in Germany and the Green River Formation in Wyoming, most bat fossils consist of fragmentary skulls and dentitions. Three separate areas preserve fossil bats on the mainland African continent — North, East, and South Africa. The oldest records are from North (early Eocene) and East (middle Eocene) Africa, while East and South Africa have the best records of Plio-Pleistocene bats. Additionally, there is a restricted sample of late Oligocene bats from Taqah, Oman, on the nearby Arabian Peninsula and good samples of subfossil bats from Madagascar. The African fossil bat record includes scant records of pteropodids (Old World fruit bats) from the Miocene and Pliocene and from Pleistocene and subfossil samples from Kenya and Madagascar. This chapter describes the systematic paleontology of Chiroptera.
Keywords: Africa, paleontology, Chiroptera, fossils, bats, Eocene, Oligocene, pteropodids, Miocene, Madagascar
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One Tectonics and Geomorphology of Africa during the Phanerozoic
- Two Chronology of Paleogene Mammal Localities
- Three Chronology of Neogene Mammal Localities
- Four Global and African Regional Climate during the Cenozoic
- Five A Review of the Cenozoic Vegetation History of Africa
- Twenty-Six Creodonta
- Twenty-Seven Prionogalidae (Mammalia <i>Incertae Sedis</i>)
- Twenty-Eight Primitive Ungulates (“Condylarthra” and Stem Paenungulata)
- Twenty-Nine Neogene Insectivora
- Thirty Chiroptera
- Thirty-One Pholidota
- Thirty-Two Carnivora
- Thirty-Three Chalicotheriidae
- Thirty-Four Rhinocerotidae
- Thirty-Five Equidae
- Thirty-Six Tragulidae
- Thirty-Seven Pecora Incertae Sedis
- Thirty-Eight Bovidae
- Thirty-Nine Giraffoidea
- Forty Cervidae
- Forty-One Camelidae
- Forty-Two Suoidea
- Forty-Three Anthracotheriidae
- Forty-Four Hippopotamidae
- Forty-Five Cetacea
- Forty-Six Systematics of Endemic African Mammals
- Forty-Seven Mammal Species Richness in Africa
- Forty-Eight Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotopes in East African Mammals: Modern and Fossil
- Index
