Mammalia - Chiroptera - Phyllostomidae
Synonym: Phyllostomatidae Savage 1951
Parent taxon: Noctilionoidea according to L. I. Amador et al. 2018
See also Carroll 1988, Cope 1889, Czaplewski 2010, Flower 1883, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Hay 1930, Jaekel 1911, Kurten and Anderson 1980, McKenna and Bell 1997, Nowak 1991, Shi and Rabosky 2015 and Wilson and Reeder 2005
Sister taxa: Furipteridae, Mystacinidae, Noctilionidae, Thyropteridae
Subtaxa: Artibeus Brachyphylla Carolliinae Desmodontinae Erophylla Glossophaginae Lonchophylla Lonchophyllinae Lophostoma Macrophyllum Macrotus Micronycteris Mimon Mormoops Notonycteris Phylloderma Phyllonycteris Phyllostomatinae Phyllostominae Stenoderma Stenodermatinae Trachops Uroderma
Type: Phyllostominae
Ecology: volant omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Antigua and Barbuda (1 collection), Argentina (1), the Bahamas (7), Brazil (11), Cayman Islands (10), Cuba (2), Mexico (1), Peru (1), Puerto Rico (4), United States (15: Arizona, California, Florida, New Mexico, Texas, West Virginia), Venezuela (4)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Colombia (5), Panama (1), United States (2: California)
• Arikareean of United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of France (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Peru (1)
Total: 70 collections including 156 occurrences