Family Molossidae Gervais 1856 (free-tailed bat)

Mammalia - Chiroptera - Molossidae

Parent taxon: Vespertilionoidea according to L. I. Amador et al. 2018

See also Butler 1984, Carroll 1988, Czaplewski 2010, Kurten 1968, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Nowak 1991, Shi and Rabosky 2015 and Vianey-Liaud et al. 2014

Sister taxa: Chambinycteris, Drakonycteris, Natalidae

Subtaxa: Cuvierimops Eumops Molossinae Mormopterus Nyctinomus Potamops Rhizomops Tadaridinae Wallia

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Ecology: volant insectivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Antigua and Barbuda (1 collection), the Bahamas (1), Bolivia (2), Brazil (2), Cayman Islands (1), Italy (1), Madagascar (1), Mauritius (1), Mexico (2), Puerto Rico (2), South Africa (1), United States (11: Arizona, California, Florida, New Mexico, Texas, West Virginia), Venezuela (1), Zambia (1)

• Blancan of United States (2: Arizona, Florida)

• Pliocene of Kenya (2)

• Miocene of Argentina (1), Brazil (2), Colombia (7), France (1), Germany (2), Kenya (1), Peru (2), Spain (2), Switzerland (1), Thailand (1)

• Oligocene of France (3)

• Eocene to Oligocene of Peru (1)

• Eocene of Canada (4: Saskatchewan), France (5), Switzerland (1)

Total: 66 collections including 86 occurrences

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