Parent taxon: Microchiropteramorpha according to D. L. Harrison and J. J. Hooker 2010
See also Carroll 1988, Czaplewski 1991, Flower 1883, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Gregory 1910, Gunnell et al. 2003, Gunnell et al. 2008, Hay 1930, Hooker 1986, Jaekel 1911, Kurten and Anderson 1980, McKenna 1975 and Ravel et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Archaeonycteridae, Hassianycterididae, Jaegeria, Palaeochiropterygidae
Subtaxa: Afropterus Icaronycteroidea
Ecology: volant insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (2: California collections)
• Pliocene of Australia (1), Ethiopia (1)
• Miocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of Oman (1), Switzerland (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Peru (1)
• Eocene of China (3), France (2), Peru (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (4: Nevada, Wyoming)
Total: 19 collections including 22 occurrences