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New 52 million-year-old bat species discovered in Wyoming, US, is the oldest bat skeleton known

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The oldest known bat skeletons and their implications for Eocene chiropteran diversification

image: Skeleton of paratype of Icaronycteris gunnelli (ROM:Palaeobiology-Vertebrate Fossils:52666). view more 

Credit: Rietbergen et al., 2023, PLOS ONE, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0283505

Article Title: The oldest known bat skeletons and their implications for Eocene chiropteran diversification

Author Countries: The Netherlands, USA

Funding: 1) Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Fund of the American Museum of Natural History (TBR) https://www.amnh.org/research/richard-gilder-graduate-school/academics-and-research/fellowship-and-grant-opportunities/research-grants-and-graduate-student-exchange-fellowships/roosevelt-memorial-fund 2) Minerva Scholarship Fund (TBR) https://www.minervascholarshipfund.com 3) LUF International Study Grant (TBR) https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/scholarships/sea/luf-international-study-fund-lisf 4) Mej. Alida M. Buitendijk Grant (TBR) https://www.luf.nl/draag-bij/fonds-op-naam/wiskunde-en-natuurwetenschappen# 5) Society for Systematic Biologists mini-ARTS grant (MJ) https://www.systbio.org/mini-arts-awards.html 6) U.S. National Science Foundation (Grant No. DBI 1358465) (AMNH; NBS) https://www.nsf.gov/. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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