Family Noctilionidae Gray 1821 (bulldog bat)

Mammalia - Chiroptera - Noctilionidae

Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review 15:296-310

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

See also Cope 1889, Gray 1821, Nowak 1991 and Shi and Rabosky 2015

Sister taxa: Furipteridae, Mystacinidae, Phyllostomidae, Thyropteridae

Subtaxa: Noctilio

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Ecology: volant piscivore-insectivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Brazil (1 collection), Venezuela (1)

• Huayquerian of Peru (1)

• Miocene of Brazil (1), Colombia (1)

Total: 5 collections including 6 occurrences

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