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), Czechia (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 (9), Tanzania (1), Yemen (2), Zambia (1)
• MN 16 of Poland (1)
• Villafranchian of Hungary (3)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of France (1), South Africa (1)
• Pliocene of Australia (3), Austria (1), Ethiopia (1), Hungary (3), Poland (3), South Africa (3), Spain (1)
• MN 13 of France (2)
• Turolian of China (2), Greece (1)
• Miocene of Australia (11), Austria (3), China (1), France (2), Germany (2), Greece (1), Italy (1), Madagascar (1), Namibia (2), Serbia (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: 149 collections including 287 occurrences