Dizzya
| Dizzya Temporal range: Eocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | †Philisidae |
| Genus: | †Dizzya Sigé, 1991 |
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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.[1] It is the smallest and, along with Witwatia sigei, the oldest representative of the Philisidae, an extinct family of bats related to the Vespertilionidae.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
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