Superfamily Emballonuroidea (bat)

Mammalia - Chiroptera

Parent taxon: Yangochiroptera according to L. I. Amador et al. 2018

See also Carroll 1988 and Ravel et al. 2016

Sister taxa: Mormoopidae, Myzopodidae, Noctilionoidea, Vespertilionoidea

Subtaxa: Emballonuridae Nycteridae

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Ecology: volant insectivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Ethiopia (1 collection), Kenya (1), Mauritius (1), Mexico (1), South Africa (2), Venezuela (1)

• Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (2), South Africa (1)

• Miocene of Bulgaria (1), Colombia (1), France (1), Peru (2), Thailand (1), Uganda (1)

• Arikareean of United States (1: Florida)

• Oligocene of Egypt (1), France (3), Oman (1), Peru (1), United States (1: Florida)

• Eocene to Oligocene of France (1)

• Eocene of Algeria (1), France (7), Germany (1), Switzerland (1), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 39 collections including 58 occurrences

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