Family Pteropodidae Gray 1821 (fruit bat)
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Pteropodidae
Parent taxon: Yinpterochiroptera according to J. J. Shi and D. L. Rabosky 2015
See also Bonaparte 1850, Butler 1984, Carroll 1988, Flower 1883, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Jaekel 1911, Nowak 1991 and Wilson and Reeder 2005
Sister taxon: Rhinolophoidea
Subtaxa: Eidolon Notopteris Nyctimene Propottininae Pteropus Rousettus Turkanycteris
Ecology: volant herbivore-insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (2 collections), Cook Islands (1), Guam (2), Israel (2), Madagascar (2), Mauritius (3), New Caledonia (1), Niue (3), Northern Mariana Islands (11), Palau (4), the Philippines (4)
• Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (2)
• Eocene of Thailand (1)
Total: 39 collections including 49 occurrences