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Miniopterus zapfei
''Miniopterus zapfei'' is a fossil bat in the genus ''Miniopterus'' from the middle Miocene of France. First described in 2002, it is known only from the site of La Grive M, where it occurs with another fossil ''Miniopterus'' species, the smaller and more common ''Miniopterus fossilis''. ''M. zapfei'' is known from five mandibles (lower jaws) and an isolated fourth upper premolar (P4). The fourth lower premolar is more slender than in ''M. fossilis'' and the cingulum shelf surrounding the P4 is less well-developed than in living ''Miniopterus''. The length of the first lower molar is 1.57 to 1.60 mm.
==Taxonomy==
''Miniopterus zapfei'' was described by Pierre Mein and Léonard Ginsburg in a 2002 paper on the ages and faunas of the fossil sites of La Grive-Saint-Alban in southeastern France.〔Mein and Ginsburg, 2002, p. 23〕 Mein and Ginsburg wrote that it was the second fossil ''Miniopterus'' species to be described, after ''Miniopterus fossilis'' from Slovakia,〔 but did not mention ''Miniopterus approximatus'' from the Pliocene of Poland or ''Miniopterus tao'' from the Pleistocene of China.〔Mein and Ginsburg, 2002, p. 24; Ziegler, 2003, p. 485〕 Another fossil species, ''Miniopterus rummeli'', was described from the Miocene of Germany in 2003.〔Ziegler, 2003, p. 484〕 The specific name, ''zapfei'', honors Helmuth Zapfe, who described ''M. fossilis''.〔 ''Miniopterus'' also includes about 20 living species of small, insectivorous bats distributed in southern Eurasia, Africa, and Australia. Although the genus was historically placed in the family Vespertilionidae, it is now classified in its own family, Miniopteridae.〔Miller-Butterworth et al., 2007, p. 1553〕
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