Andrea L. Cirranello

TL;DR: A phylogenetic tree shows that crown clade Placentalia and placental orders originated after the K-Pg boundary, but phenomic signals overturn molecular signals to show Sundatheria (Dermoptera + Scandentia) as the sister taxon of Primates, a close link between Proboscidea and Sirenia (sea cows), and the monophyly of echolocating Chiroptera (bats).

TL;DR: The biological processes that generate phylogenetic conflict are ubiquitous, and overcoming incongruence requires better models and more data than have been collected even in well‐studied organisms such as phyllostomid bats.

TL;DR: It is proposed that a classification based on the strengths of the most complete morphological and genetic data sets will provide the most robust classification for multiple uses by science and society.

TL;DR: The Age of Discovery for bats is ongoing, and new taxonomic and systematic discoveries, especially those involving cryptic species and unrecognized diversity, are rapidly increasing with the advent of modern genetics.

TL;DR: The goal of this paper is to provide morphological diagnoses of higher-level taxa (subtribes, tribes, and subfamilies) of phyllostomid relationships, areas of the greatest controversy.