Family Caeciliidae Gray 1825 (common caecilian)
Amphibia - Gymnophiona - Caeciliidae
Parent taxon: Apoda according to H. C. Maddin et al. 2012
See also Carroll 1988, Cope 1875, Estes 1981 and Estes and Wake 1972
Sister taxa: Dermophiidae, Herpelidae, Ichthyophiidae, Indotyphlidae, Rhinatrematidae, Scolecomorphidae, Siphonopidae, Typhlonectidae
Subtaxa: Apodops
Ecology: amphibious carnivore
Distribution: found only at Companhia National de Cimento Portland Quarry (Paleocene to Eocene of Brazil)