Hipposideros felix

Hipposideros felix is an extinct species of Old World leaf-nosed bat known only from Miocene fossil deposits at Li Mae Long in Thailand. The holotype is a single tooth, the third molar, of a hipposiderid bat whose features resemble the Brachipposideros group of fossil species found in Australia and France. Leonard Ginsburg and Pierre Mein described it in a study of the mammal specimens from the site, which also produced evidence of other unknown species, including further bats. The Li Mae Long locality was determined to have been a forest beside an open body of water in the Miocene. The authors chose the Latin epithet felix, meaning fortunate, to echo the regional view of the bat as a symbol of happiness and good fortune. Nothing more than the tooth and its setting is documented, so the animal itself remains poorly characterized.