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Mammals

Bats, ungulates, and other early Eocene mammals from around Fossil Lake.

Bats

Onychonycteris finneyi

Currently the most primitive bat known — a link between modern bats and their non-flying ancestors.

Bats

Icaronycteris index

A Fossil Lake bat more closely related to modern bats than O. finneyi, with early echolocation.

Bats

Icaronycteris gunnelli

A recently described Fossil Lake bat — more research is still needed on echolocation and its place in bat evolution.

Odd-Toed Ungulates

Protorohippus venticolus

Known from only two FBM specimens — including the most complete dawn-horse skeleton ever found.

Odd-Toed Ungulates

Lambdotherium popoagicum

A brontothere — an odd-toed ungulate from a family that went extinct at the end of the Eocene.

Lemur-Like Mammals

Apatemys chardini

Known from a single FBM specimen — currently the most complete skeleton of this species in the world.

Tube-Sheep

Hyopsodus wortmani

A single FBM skeleton — possibly the most complete hyopsodontid ever discovered.

Otter-Like Carnivores

Palaeosinopa didelphoides

An otter-like swimmer known from three nearshore skeletons — one with fish in the stomach.