… of evolutionary rates and patterns among bats. In this study, we applied … completeness to
the bat fossil record. The main utility of these methods over others used to study completeness …

… bat fossil record using skeletal and character completeness metrics, which respectively
document for each taxon what proportion of a complete … Bats have an almost global distribution. …

… slash indicate the average percentage missing of that fossil record for that clade or the average
of … the New World Rhynchonycteris and the Old World Emballonura. Using this complete …

… Bats have a notoriously poor fossil record [1,2], despite being among the most widespread …
teeth: the complete dentition of the Messel bat Archaeonycteris trigonodon. In The world at the …

… fossil record of bats for Uruguay from an open site (Raigón Formation, Plio/Pleistocene)
based on a complete … strategy and morphology in New World leaf-nosed bats (Phyllostomidae): …

… clade distinct from known Old World lineages of archaic bats. Our analyses found no … bat
fossil record consists of isolated teeth [16, 18, 38, 39]. However, more complete remains of bats …

… record we know globally, and, even more importantly, how … the question of global completeness
of the mammalian fossil record, … Global completeness of the bat fossil record. Journal of …

… Among living Chiroptera, morphological data provide strong support for the reciprocal
monophyly of megachiropterans (Old World fruit bats), all of which lack laryngeal echolocation, …

… , 17 extant families) and Megachiroptera (one family of Old World fruit bats, which do not …
the earliest known definitive bat, is represented by several nearly complete skeletons from the …

… , right around the age of the oldest emballonurid fossil. Most other dates are also consistent
with the fossil record. The genus Taphozoushas a fossil record going up to 20.4 my, a date in …