Amphibia - Salientia - Pipidae
Parent taxon: Pipimorpha according to F. Suazo Lara and R. O. Gómez 2022
See also Aranciaga Rolando et al. 2019, Blackburn et al. 2019, Carroll 1988, Cope 1875, Delfino and Sanchez-Villagra 2018, Estes 1975, Frank and Ramus 1996, Gadow 1898, Gissi et al. 2006, Gómez 2016, Henrici 1998, Henrici and Báez 2001, Hoegg et al. 2004, Kuhn 1946, Martinelli and Forasiepi 2004, Sanchiz 1998 and Trueb and Báez 2006
Sister taxa: Avitabatrachus, Cordicephalus, Cratopipa, Gracilibatrachus, Palaeobatrachidae, Pipinomorpha, Thoraciliacus
Subtaxa: Kuruleufenia Llankibatrachus Oumtkoutia Pipinae Rocekophryne Shomronella Xenopodinae Xenopus
Ecology: amphibious carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Tanzania (2 collections)
• Pliocene of Venezuela (1)
• Miocene of Morocco (1), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene of Peru (1), Tanzania (1), Yemen (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Argentina (1), Peru (1)
• Eocene of Algeria (1), Argentina (2), Namibia (2), Peru (2), Tanzania (2)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Brazil (1)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (5), Chile (1), Israel (2), Morocco (2), Niger (1)
Total: 32 collections including 36 occurrences