Family Natalidae Gray 1866 (funnel-eared bat)

Mammalia - Chiroptera - Natalidae

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

See also Carroll 1988, Jaekel 1911, Nowak 1991 and Shi and Rabosky 2015

Sister taxa: Chambinycteris, Drakonycteris, Molossidae

Subtaxa: Ageina Honrovits Natalus Primonatalus

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Ecology: volant insectivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Antigua and Barbuda (1 collection), the Bahamas (2), Brazil (3), Cayman Islands (1)

• Miocene of United States (1: Florida)

• Oligocene of United States (1: Florida)

• Eocene of France (2), United States (4: Utah, Wyoming)

Total: 15 collections including 17 occurrences

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