| Brachipposideros Temporal range: Burdigalian 20.4–15.9 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ | |
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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 |
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.
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. 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.
The dentition is the same as many other bats, and accords with the dental formula of hipposiderids: I1/2 C1/1 P1-2/2-3 M3/3
The species assigned to this genus include,
- Brachipposideros aguilari
- Brachipposideros collongensis
- Brachipposideros dechaseauxi
- Brachipposideros nooraleebus
References
- "ABC Science - Australian Beasts - Fact files - Riversleigh Leaf-nosed Bat". www.abc.net.au. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
- ^ 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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