Palaeochiropteryx tupaiodon REVILLIOD, 1917
Prepped by transfer method (Toombs, Harry; A.E. Rixon (1950). "The use of plastics in the "transfer method" of preparing fossils". The museums journal. 50: 105–107.)
Palaeochiropteryx tupaiodon with partly preserved wing membrane and fur.
As far as I know, four bat genera with a total of 8 species are known from Messel: Palaeochiropteryx tupaiodon and P. spiegeli, Archaeonycteris trigonodon and A. pollex, Trachypteron franzeni, Hassianycteris messelense, H. magna and Hassianycteris? revil
Class: Mammalia
Family: Archaeonycteridae Revilliod 1917
Messel Formation
Hessia
International Age: Lutetian
Date Collected: 06/01/1970
Catalog #: TFF-oilshale-Ch139
This is all "old stuff" from the end of the 60ties and 70ties (of the last century). Oil shale was actively mined starting in 1859 - mining ceased in 1971. In 1967, I started to collect in Messel at age of 15 (when I was still in school). At that time, even though the pit and the abundant fossils were well known to science for more than 100 years, nobody was really interested in fossils from Messel. Reason for this was: The slate there contains around 40% water - when the water evaporates, the s
