Mammalia - Chiroptera - Hipposideridae
Parent taxon: Rhinolophoidea according to A. Ravel et al. 2016
See also Butler 1984, Carroll 1988, Hand 1997, Hand 1997, Hand 1998, Hand 1998, Hand and Archer 2005 and Harrison and Hooker 2010
Sister taxa: Craseonycteridae, Megadermatidae, Necromantidae, Rhinolophidae, Rhinonycteridae, Rhinopomatidae
Subtaxa: Anthops Aselliscus Hipposiderini Hipposideros Miophyllorhina Palaeophyllophora Palaeophyllopora Paraphyllophora Rhinonycterini Riversleigha Triaenops Vaylatsia
Type: Hipposiderini
Ecology: volant insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (4 collections), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Ethiopia (1), Madagascar (3), the Philippines (4), Zambia (1)
• Pliocene of Ethiopia (1)
• Miocene of Australia (9), China (3), France (2), Italy (1), Namibia (1), Thailand (1)
• Oligocene of France (3), Oman (1), Spain (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of France (1)
• Eocene of France (11), Switzerland (1), Tunisia (1)
Total: 51 collections including 105 occurrences