Parent taxon: Urodela according to K.-Q. Gao and N. H. Shubin 2001
See also Carroll 1988, Estes 1964, Estes 1981, Gao and Shubin 2003, Jia and Gao 2019 and Kuhn 1946
Sister taxa: Ambystomatoidea, Amphiumidae, Hemitrypus, Hynobiidae, Iridotriton, Kiyatriton, Laccotriton, Liaoxitriton, Meantes, Menopomidae, Neocaudata, Nesovtriton, Nezpercius, Plethodontidae, Pleurodelidae, Polysemia, Proteidae, Rhyacotritonidae, Salamandra, Salamandridae, Salamandroidea, Seminobatrachus, Sinerpeton, Sirenidae, Thoriidae, Valdotriton
Subtaxa: Chunerpeton Cryptobranchidae Linglongtriton Nuominerpeton
Ecology: amphibious carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (6: Alabama, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia collections)
• Pliocene of Germany (1)
• Miocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), the Czech Republic (1), Germany (7), Greece (1), Hungary (1), Ukraine (1), United States (5: Colorado, Nebraska)
• Oligocene of Germany (2), Kazakhstan (1)
• Clarkforkian of United States (1: Wyoming)
• Paleocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), Mongolia (1)
• Cretaceous of China (2), Kazakhstan (1), Tajikistan (1), United States (1: Texas), Uzbekistan (4)
• Jurassic of China (7)
Total: 46 collections including 51 occurrences