Parent taxon: Neobatrachia according to S. Hoegg et al. 2004
See also de Lapparent de Broin et al. 2020 and Sanchiz 1998
Sister taxa: Arariphrynus, Australobatrachia, Bufonidae, Ceratophryidae, Ceratophrynidae, Cratia, Eurycephalella, Heleophrynidae, Hungarobatrachus, Hyloidea, Mariliabatrachus, Primaevorana, Sooglossidae, Telmatobiidae
Subtaxa: Mantellidae Microhylidae Ptychadenidae Ranidae Rhacophoridae
Ecology: amphibious carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Belgium (1 collection), Canada (1: Quebec), Croatia (1), France (19), Germany (10), Greece (16), Hungary (6), Ireland (4), Israel (2), Italy (7), Japan (1), Madagascar (1), Mexico (3), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (1), Palau (9), the Philippines (1), Poland (13), Portugal (1), Romania (1), South Africa (2), Spain (17), Tanzania (2), Türkiye (1), the United Kingdom (27), United States (76: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Sussex, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia)
• Villafranchian of Greece (1), Hungary (3), Italy (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (1)
• MN 16 of Italy (1), Poland (1)
• Blancan of Mexico (1), United States (7: California, Florida, Kansas, Nebraska)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of France (1), Hungary (2)
• Pliocene of Armenia (2), France (1), Germany (1), Greece (11), Hungary (3), India (2), Poland (2), Spain (5), Türkiye (7)
• Turolian of Greece (3), Italy (2), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1)
• Hemphillian of United States (10: Arizona, California, Florida, Indiana, Nebraska, Oregon, Tennessee)
• Miocene of Afghanistan (1), Austria (3), China (3), Czechia (2), France (1), Germany (7), Greece (1), Hungary (7), India (2), Italy (5), Kazakhstan (1), Moldova (2), Morocco (1), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (4), Thailand (1), Türkiye (1), Ukraine (2), United States (26: California, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), France (2), Germany (4), Tanzania (2)
• Eocene of Algeria (1), France (4), Germany (1), India (2), Namibia (2)
• Cretaceous of India (1), Niger (1)
Total: 390 collections including 545 occurrences