Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Brachyopidae
Full reference: R. Broom. 1915. On the Triassic stegocephalians, Brachyops, Bothriceps, and Lydekkerina, gen. nov. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1915:363-368
Parent taxon: Brachyopoidea according to R. R. Schoch and A. R. Milner 2014
See also Carroll 1988, Damiani and Rubidge 2003, Damiani and Warren 1996, Haughton 1925, Kuhn 1946, Schoch 2013, Warren and Marsicano 1998, Warren and Marsicano 2000, Watson 1919 and Yates and Warren 2000
Sister taxa: Austropelor, Austropelor wadleyi, Chigutisauridae, Hadrokkosaurus, Plagiosauridae
Subtaxa: Banksiops Bathignathus Batrachosuchus Blinasaurus Bothriceps Brachyops Ferganobatrachus Gobiops Notobrachyops Platycepsion Sinobrachyops Vanastega Vigilius Xenobrachyops
Type: Brachyops
Ecology: amphibious carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections)
• Miocene of Italy (1)
• Cretaceous of China (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Thailand (1)
• Jurassic of China (3), Kyrgyzstan (5), Mongolia (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Triassic of Algeria (1), Australia (12), India (1), South Africa (6), United States (2: Arizona), Zambia (1)
• Permian to Triassic of Australia (1)
Total: 39 collections including 40 occurrences