Family Natalidae Gray 1866 (funnel-eared bat)
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Natalidae
Parent taxon: Vespertilionoidea according to L. I. Amador et al. 2018
See also Carroll 1988, Jaekel 1911, Nowak 1991 and Shi and Rabosky 2015
Sister taxa: Chambinycteris, Drakonycteris, Molossidae, Vespertilionidae
Subtaxa: Ageina Honrovits Natalus Primonatalus
Ecology: volant insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Antigua and Barbuda (1 collection), the Bahamas (2), Brazil (3), Cayman Islands (1)
• Miocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Eocene of France (2), United States (4: Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 15 collections including 17 occurrences