Amphibia - Salientia - Hylidae
Parent taxon: Hyloidea according to S. Hoegg et al. 2004
See also Carroll 1988, Cope 1875, Estes 1964, Frank and Ramus 1996, Gadow 1898, Holman et al. 1990, Kuhn 1946, Sanchiz 1998, Venczel and Stiuca 2008 and Villa et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Beelzebufo, Leptodactylidae, Myobatrachidae
Subtaxa: Acris Chorophilus Hemiphractinae Hylinae Pelodryadinae Phyllomedusinae Proacris Smilisca
Type: Hyla
Ecology: amphibious carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Antigua and Barbuda (1 collection), Australia (2), the Bahamas (8), Cayman Islands (2), Croatia (1), France (4), Germany (1), Greece (1), Italy (4), Jamaica (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (2), Romania (1), Spain (6), the United Kingdom (4), United States (36: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia)
• Pliocene of Greece (1), Italy (3), Morocco (1)
• Hemphillian of United States (4: Arizona, Nebraska)
• Miocene of Australia (1), Austria (1), Germany (1), Greece (2), Hungary (9), Italy (6), Moldova (1), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (1), Ukraine (1), United States (17: Colorado, Florida, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Texas)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), Germany (1)
• Eocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan)
• Cretaceous of India (1), United States (1: Wyoming)
Total: 134 collections including 168 occurrences