Geographic distribution of extant and fossil bats of the families Myzopodidae and Mystacinidae and extant Neotropical noctilionoid bats, along with the phylogeny of Noctilionoidea inferred from nuclear DNA sequence data. Red stars indicate location of fossil myzopodid localities (North Africa) and mystacinid localities (northern Australia) and red arrows indicate where these families are found today (myzopodids only in Madagascar and mystacinids only in New Zealand). Extant Neotropical noctilionoids are restricted (red ellipse) to South and Central America, southern North America and the Caribbean.