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, Vespertilionidae
Subtaxa: Cuvierimops Eumops Molossinae Mormopterus Nyctinomus Potamops Rhizomops Tadaridinae Wallia
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), 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)
• Huayquerian of Peru (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Brazil (2), Colombia (7), France (1), Germany (2), Kenya (1), Peru (1), 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: 64 collections including 84 occurrences