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Extinct genus of bats

Dizzya
Temporal range: Eocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: †Philisidae
Genus: †Dizzya
Sigé, 1991
Species
  • D. exsultans Sigé, 1991 (type)

Dizzya is an extinct, monotypic genus of bat that occurred in the Chambi region, Tunisia, in the Middle Eocene. It was described based on a single upper molar, a lower dentary with two broken teeth, and a humerus. It is the smallest and, along with Witwatia sigei, the oldest representative of the Philisidae, an extinct family of bats related to the Vespertilionidae.

References

  1. Sigé, B. (1991). "Rhinolophoidea et Vespertilionoidea (Chiroptera) du Chambi (Eocène inférieur de Tunisie). Aspect biostratigraphique, biogéographique et paléoécologique de l'origine des chiròpteres modernes". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen. 182 (3): 355–376. doi:10.1127/njgpa/182/1991/355.
  2. Ravel, Anthony; Marivaux L.; Tabuce R.; Ali M.B.H.; Essid E.M.; Vianey-Liaud M. (2015). "A new large philisid (Mammalia, Chiroptera, Vespertilionoidea) from the late early Eocene of Chambi, Tunisia". Palaeontology. 55 (2): 1035–1041. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2012.01160.x.
Taxon identifiers
Dizzya


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