Matthesia

{{Short description|Extinct genus of bats}}

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| fossil_range = Middle Eocene, {{fossil range|48.6|40.4}}

| taxon = Matthesia

| authority = Sigé and Russell 1980

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• {{extinct}}Matthesia germanica
• {{extinct}}Matthesia insolita

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Matthesia was a primitive bat genus in the family Palaeochiropterygidae. Matthesia is represented by two species known from the middle Lutetian of Geiseltal, Germany.{{Cite journal|last=Sigé|first=Bernard|last2=Russell|first2=Donald E.|date=1980|title=Compléments sur les chiroptères de l'Eocène moyen d'Europe. Les genres Palaeochiropteryx et Cecilionycteris|journal=Palaeovertebrata|volume=9|pages=91–126}} It may be a junior synonym of Palaeochiropteryx.{{Cite book|chapter=Systematics and paleobiogeography of early bats|last=Smith|first=Thierry|last2=Habersetzer|first2=Jörg|date=March 2012|website=Evolutionary History of Bats: Fossils, Molecules and Morphology|doi=10.1017/cbo9781139045599.003|isbn=9781139045599|last3=Simmons|first3=Nancy B.|last4=Gunnell|first4=Gregg F.|title=Evolutionary History of Bats|pages=23–66|editor1-last=Gunnell|editor1-first=Gregg F|editor2-last=Simmons|editor2-first=Nancy B}}