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Re: BATS- Any among the dinosaurs?

To: bettyc@flyinggoat.com
Subject: Re: BATS- Any among the dinosaurs?
From: Jonathon Woolf <jwoolf@erinet.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 20:24:18 -0400
Cc: vonrex@gte.net, tlford@ix.netcom.com, dinosaur@usc.edu
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Betty Cunningham wrote:

> the earliest known bat fossil appears in the back of PTERASAURS by
> Wellnhofer.  AFAIK it is still the oldest bat.  And remains as advanced
> as any modern mircobat with echolocation abilities and a fully modern
> skeleton.

_Icaronycteris_ is the oldest well-known bat fossil -- at 50 MYA, it's late
Paleocene.  Carroll's 1988 text mentions scattered teeth that look batlike and
are older.

-- Jon W.

References:
- BATS- Any among the dinosaurs?
  - From: "Peter Von Sholly" <vonrex@gte.net>
- Re: BATS- Any among the dinosaurs?
  - From: Betty Cunningham <bettyc@flyinggoat.com>

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