Parent taxon: Yinpterochiroptera according to L. I. Amador et al. 2018
See also Carroll 1988, Hand 1997, Hand 1997, Hand 1998, Hand 1998, Hand et al. 2023, Harrison and Hooker 2010 and Ravel et al. 2016
Sister taxon: Pteropodidae
Subtaxa: Craseonycteridae Hipposideridae Megadermatidae Necromantidae Rhinolophidae Rhinonycteridae Rhinopomatidae
Ecology: volant insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (6 collections), Austria (1), China (4), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), the Czech Republic (1), Ethiopia (1), France (2), Greece (4), Hungary (5), Israel (5), Italy (6), Japan (2), Madagascar (3), the Philippines (4), Poland (1), Portugal (1), South Africa (3), Spain (7), Tanzania (1), Yemen (2), Zambia (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of France (1), South Africa (1)
• Pliocene of Australia (3), Austria (1), Ethiopia (1), Hungary (6), Poland (4), South Africa (3), Spain (1)
• MN 13 of France (2)
• Miocene of Australia (11), Austria (3), China (3), France (2), Germany (2), Greece (2), Italy (1), Namibia (2), Serbia and Montenegro (3), Slovakia (2), Spain (2), Switzerland (1), Thailand (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), Egypt (1), France (3), Oman (1), Peru (1), Spain (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of France (1)
• Eocene of Egypt (1), France (14), Switzerland (2), Tunisia (1)
Total: 146 collections including 279 occurrences