Family Miniopteridae Dobson 1875 (bat)
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Miniopteridae
Parent taxon: Yangochiroptera according to K. E. Samonds et al. 2025
Sister taxa: Emballonuroidea, Mormoopidae, Myzopodidae, Noctilionoidea, Vespertilionoidea
Subtaxa: Miniopterus
Ecology: volant insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (4 collections), China (2), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), France (1), Hungary (2), Israel (3), Italy (2), Madagascar (3), South Africa (2), Spain (5), Zambia (3)
• Pliocene of Hungary (1), Poland (1), South Africa (2)
• Miocene of Madagascar (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (1)
Total: 35 collections including 38 occurrences