Philisidae is an
extinct
Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...
family of
bats of the
suborder
Order ( la, ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between family and class. In biological classification, the order is a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms and ...
Microchiroptera that lived between the
Eocene to the Late
Miocene in the continent of
Africa.
Genera
Currently the following genera are known:
*†''
Dizzya''
Sigé, 1991
*†''
Philisis''
Sigé, 1985 ( type genus)
*†''
Scotophilisis''
Horáček, Fejfar & Hulva, 2006
*†''
Vampyravus''
Schlosser, 1910
*†''
Witwatia
''Witwatia'' (from the Egyptian Arabic ''Wit Wat'' meaning "large, flapping wings") is an extinct genus of giant bat that contained two species which lived in the Al Fayyum in Egypt during the late Eocene (Priabonian epoch) and one species which ...
''
Gunnell ''et al.'', 2008
References
Bat families
Eocene first appearances
Miocene extinctions
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