The 52.5–0 Ma Chiroptera route is anchored by the Green River Onychonycteris holotype and living bats; the specimen documents an early bat occurrence, not crown-bat origination, a direct ancestor or a global FAD.
claim:taxon:chiroptera:root-rangeChiroptera
The 52.5–0 Ma Chiroptera route is anchored by the Green River Onychonycteris holotype and living bats; the specimen documents an early bat occurrence, not crown-bat origination, a direct ancestor or a global FAD. This navigation entry is not a phylogeny or a complete taxon dossier.
Represented range52.5–Present Ma
Content packageother-mammals
PBDBtxn:40622
Evidence boundary
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Claim ledger
Known limits
- A missing branch or fossil occurrence does not imply biological absence. Internal nodes are not calibrated divergence estimates.
References
- Primitive Early Eocene bat from Wyoming and the evolution of flight and echolocationSimmons, N.B.; Seymour, K.L.; Habersetzer, J.; Gunnell, G.F. · 2008 · DOI 10.1038/nature06549
- Open Tree of Life web servicesOpenTreeOfLife Project
- The Paleobiology Database application programming interfacePeters, S.E.; McClennen, M. · 2016 · DOI 10.1017/pab.2015.39
- Denormalized occurrence and taxon tables of the Paleobiology DatabaseThe Paleobiology Database Community; Kocsis, Á.T. · 2026 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21620933