Late Paleocene – Recent | image = Big-eared-townsend-fledermaus.jpg | image_width = 240px | image_caption = Townsend's big-eared bat, Corynorhinus townsendii | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Chordata | classis = Mammalia | infraclassis = Eutheria | superordo = Laurasiatheria | ordo = Chiroptera | ordo_authority = Blumenbach, 1779 | subdivision_ranks = Suborders | subdivision = See article | range_map = Chiroptera.dist.gif | range_map_width = 240px }} Bats are mammals in the order Chiroptera… (More on Bats)