Alternative spelling: Cryptobranchiidae
Parent taxon: Cryptobranchoidea according to P. P. Skutschas and Y. M. Gubin 2012
See also Böhme 2008, Carroll 1988, Estes 1981, Frank and Ramus 1996, Gao and Shubin 2001, Gao and Shubin 2003, Holman 1977, Holman et al. 1990, Kuhn 1946 and Vasilyan and Böhme 2012
Sister taxa: Chunerpeton, Linglongtriton, Nuominerpeton
Subtaxa: Andrias Aviturinae Cryptobranchus Eoscapherpeton
Type: Cryptobranchus
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 Kazakhstan (1), Tajikistan (1), United States (1: Texas), Uzbekistan (4)
Total: 37 collections including 41 occurrences