Amphibia - Salientia - Ranidae
Parent taxon: Ranoidea according to S. Hoegg et al. 2004
See also Böhme 2008, Böhme 2010, Carroll 1988, Cope 1875, de Lapparent de Broin et al. 2020, Frank and Ramus 1996, Gadow 1898, Gissi et al. 2006, Hay 1902, Holman et al. 1990, Kuhn 1946, Sanchiz 1998, Shoshani et al. 1989, Venczel and Stiuca 2008 and Vianey-Liaud et al. 2014
Sister taxa: Mantellidae, Microhylidae, Ptychadenidae, Rhacophoridae
Subtaxa: Asphaerion Chaparana Conraua Dicroglossinae Pelophylax Platymantis Ptychadena Rana Raninae
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), Romania (1), South Africa (2), Spain (16), Tanzania (2), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (27), United States (73: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Sussex, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia)
• Blancan of Mexico (1), United States (6: Florida, Kansas, Nebraska)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of France (1), Hungary (2)
• Pliocene of Armenia (1), France (1), Germany (1), Greece (9), Hungary (6), India (2), Italy (2), Poland (3), Slovakia (1), Spain (6), Turkey (7)
• Hemphillian of United States (9: Arizona, California, Florida, Indiana, Nebraska, Tennessee)
• Miocene of Afghanistan (1), Austria (3), China (3), the Czech Republic (2), France (1), Germany (7), Greece (4), Hungary (7), India (2), Italy (7), Kazakhstan (1), Moldova (3), Morocco (1), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (5), Thailand (1), Turkey (1), Ukraine (2), United States (26: California, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas)
• Oligocene of France (2), Germany (4)
• Eocene of France (4), Germany (1), India (2)
• Cretaceous of Niger (1)
Total: 372 collections including 503 occurrences