Mammalia - Chiroptera - Megadermatidae
Parent taxon: Rhinolophoidea according to L. I. Amador et al. 2018
See also Butler 1984, Carroll 1988, Dawson et al. 1999, Nowak 1991 and Wilson and Reeder 2005
Sister taxa: Craseonycteridae, Hipposideridae, Necromantidae, Rhinolophidae, Rhinonycteridae, Rhinopomatidae
Subtaxa: Cardioderma Lavia Macroderma Megaderma Saharaderma
Ecology: volant omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (6 collections), China (1), Israel (1), the Philippines (2), Tanzania (1)
• Pliocene of Australia (3), South Africa (1)
• MN 13 of France (1)
• Miocene of Australia (3), Austria (2), France (1), Germany (1), Greece (1), Italy (1), Slovakia (1), Switzerland (1), Thailand (1)
• Oligocene of Egypt (1), Spain (1)
Total: 30 collections each including a single occurrence