Parent taxon: Yangochiroptera according to L. I. Amador et al. 2018
See also Hand et al. 2015 and Shi and Rabosky 2015
Sister taxa: Emballonuroidea, Miniopteridae, Mormoopidae, Myzopodidae, Vespertilionoidea
Subtaxa: Furipteridae Mystacinidae Noctilionidae Phyllostomidae Thyropteridae
Ecology: volant insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Antigua and Barbuda (1 collection), Argentina (1), the Bahamas (7), Brazil (11), Cayman Islands (10), Cuba (2), Mexico (1), New Zealand (15), Peru (1), Puerto Rico (4), United States (15: Arizona, California, Florida, New Mexico, Texas, West Virginia), Venezuela (4)
• Huayquerian of Peru (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Brazil (1), Colombia (5), New Zealand (5), Panama (1), United States (2: California)
• Arikareean of United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of France (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Peru (1)
Total: 92 collections including 192 occurrences