Dinopedia
Brachipposideros
Temporal range: Burdigalian
An artist's illustration of Brachipposideros nooraleebus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Hipposideridae
Genus: Brachipposideros
Sigé, 1968
Referred species
  • Brachipposideros aguilari
  • Brachipposideros collongensis
  • Brachipposideros dechaseauxi
  • Brachipposideros nooraleebus

and others

Brachipposideros is an extinct genus of leaf-nosed bats known from Riversleigh, north-western Queensland, Australia and the Languedoc-Roussillon Region, France. The fossils date to the late Oligocene to early Miocene.