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Miniopteridae
Taxonomy
Miniopteridae was named by Dobson (1875). It is extant.
It was assigned to Yangochiroptera by Samonds et al. (2025).
It was assigned to Yangochiroptera by Samonds et al. (2025).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1875 | Miniopteridae Dobson |
| 2025 | Miniopteridae Samonds et al. p. 5 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Fm. Miniopteridae Dobson 1875
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G. Miniopterus Bonaparte 1837 [bend-winged bat]
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†Miniopterus approximatus Woloszyn 1987
†Miniopterus fossilis Zapfe 1950
Miniopterus schreibersi Natterer 1819
†Miniopterus tao Woloszyn 1986
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Carroll 1988, Simmons et al. 2008, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the MN 6 to the top of the Holocene or 13.82000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 12.75 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 12.75 Ma
Collections (35 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| MN 6 | Slovakia (Bratislava) | Miniopterus fossilis (69711) | |
| Tortonian | Madagascar | Miniopterus sp. (51586) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Spain (Granada) | Miniopterus fossilis (26752) | |
| Pliocene | Hungary (Borsodabaujzemplen) | Miniopterus sp. (231339) | |
| Pliocene | South Africa | Miniopterus sp. (22339 22341) | |
| MN 14 | Poland | Miniopterus schreibersi (32240) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Italy (Foggia) | Miniopterus sp. (40997) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Spain (Murcia) | Miniopterus sp. (34911) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Hungary (Borsodabaujzemplen) | Miniopterus sp. (35431) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | China ( Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region) | Miniopterus schreibersi (214689) | |
| Pleistocene | South Africa | Miniopterus schreibersi (21915) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Miniopterus schreibersii (136430) | |
| Pleistocene | Spain (Castilla-Leon) | Miniopterus schreibersii (34872) | |
| Pleistocene | Israel | Miniopterus sp., Miniopterus schreibersi (225664) | |
| Pleistocene - Holocene | South Africa | Miniopterus schreibersi (21949) | |
| Calabrian | Spain (Castilla-Leon) | Miniopterus schreibersii (34870) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Israel | Miniopterus schreibersii (192424 192425) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Zambia | Miniopterus schreibersi (68340 68341 68342) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Italy (Trieste) | Miniopterus schreibersii (40808) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Hungary | Miniopterus schreibersi (35476) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | France (Poitou-Charentes) | Miniopterus schreibersii (43619) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Spain | Miniopterus schreibersii (199943) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (high glacial) | China (Hubei) | Miniopterus schreibersi (92787) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Miniopterus schreibersii (182957) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | Australia (South Australia) | Miniopterus fuliginosus (183085) Miniopterus schreibersii (136172) | |
| Holocene | Madagascar (Beanka) | Miniopterus sp. (205190 205193) | |
| Holocene | Congo-Kinshasa | Miniopterus schreibersi (22073) | |
| Holocene | Spain | Miniopterus schreibersii (235636) | |
| Holocene | Madagascar (Toliara) | Miniopterus gleni (92733) |