Parent taxon: Yangochiroptera according to L. I. Amador et al. 2018
See also Carroll 1988 and Ravel et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Mormoopidae, Myzopodidae, Noctilionoidea, Vespertilionoidea
Subtaxa: Emballonuridae Nycteridae
Ecology: volant insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ethiopia (1 collection), Kenya (1), Mauritius (1), Mexico (1), South Africa (2), Venezuela (1)
• Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (2), South Africa (1)
• Miocene of Bulgaria (1), Colombia (1), France (1), Peru (2), Thailand (1), Uganda (1)
• Arikareean of United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of Egypt (1), France (3), Oman (1), Peru (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Eocene to Oligocene of France (1)
• Eocene of Algeria (1), France (7), Germany (1), Switzerland (1), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 39 collections including 58 occurrences