Family Discoglossidae Günther 1859 (painted frog)

Amphibia - Salientia - Discoglossidae

Parent taxon: Anuri according to C. Gissi et al. 2006

See also Böhme 2008, Böhme 2010, Carroll 1988, Cope 1875, Estes 1964, Estes and Berberian 1970, Evans et al. 1990, Evans and Milner 1993, Frank and Ramus 1996, Gadow 1898, Gao and Wang 2001, Hoegg et al. 2004, Kuhn 1946, Sanchiz 1998, Shishkin 2000, Venczel and Csiki 2003 and Venczel and Stiuca 2008

Sister taxa: Acosmanura, Allophyrnidae, Alytidae, Archaeobatrachia, Arthroleptidae, Bissektia, Bufoniformia, Centrolenidae, Comobatrachus, Comobatrachus aenigmatis, Costata, Diacium unipedalis, Discoglossoidea, Electrorana, Eleutherodactylidae, Eoanura, Eobatrachus, Eobatrachus agilis, Epicria, Gansubatrachus, Gastrechmia, Genibatrachus, Gobiatidae, Hemisotidae, Hensonbatrachus, Hyperoliidae, Jeholobatrachus, Lalagobatrachia, Leiopelmatidae, Liaobatrachus, Mesobatrachia, Montsechobatrachus, Montsechobatrachus gaudryi, Neobatrachia, Neusibatrachus, Odontaglossa, Odontophrynidae, Opisthocoela, Opisthocoelellus, Palaeobatrachoidea, Paradiscoglossus, Pelobatoidea, Phaneroglossa, Pipoidea, Proanura, Pseudidae, Raniformia, Rhinodermatidae, Scaphiophryninae, Scotiophryne, Sunnybatrachus, Thaumastosaurus, Theatonius, Tregobatrachidae, Tyrrellbatrachus, Varibatrachus, Vieraella, Vieraellidae, Wealdenbatrachus, Xenoanura

Subtaxa: Altanulia Alytes Aralobatrachus Bakonybatrachus Barbourula Discoglossus Enneabatrachus Eodiscoglossus Estesina Itemirella Kizylkuma Latonia Pelophilus Procerobatrachus Prodiscoglossus Saevesoederberghia Zaphrissa

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Ecology: amphibious carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Croatia (1 collection), France (12), Greece (1), Italy (8), Morocco (1), Spain (18), Tunisia (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Spain (2)

• Pliocene of Germany (1), Greece (14), Hungary (3), Italy (3), Poland (1), Spain (1), Turkey (1)

• Miocene of Austria (5), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), France (3), Germany (10), Greece (9), Hungary (11), Italy (9), Moldova (1), Morocco (1), Poland (2), Romania (3), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia and Montenegro (3), Spain (5), Thailand (1), Turkey (5), Ukraine (1)

• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (2)

• Eocene of France (2), India (1), the United Kingdom (1)

• Paleocene of United States (1: Wyoming)

• Cretaceous of Canada (2: Saskatchewan), France (1), Hungary (1), India (1), Kazakhstan (1), Mongolia (2), Romania (3), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (6), United States (6: Montana, New Jersey, Texas, Wyoming), Uzbekistan (8)

• Jurassic of Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (2: Utah, Wyoming)

• Triassic of India (1)

Total: 187 collections including 215 occurrences

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