Amphibia - Proteida - Batrachosauroididae
Alternative spelling: Batrachosauridae
Full reference: W. Auffenberg. 1958. A new family of Miocene salamanders from the Texas coastal plain. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 21(2):169-176
Parent taxon: Proteida according to M. A. Shishkin 2000
See also Auffenberg 1958, Carroll 1988, Estes 1969, Estes 1981, Estes and Berberian 1970, Naylor 1978, Naylor 1979, Peng et al. 2001, Skutschas and Gubin 2012, Sullivan 1991 and Weems and George 2001
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Batrachosauroides Opisthotriton Palaeoproteus Parrisia Peratosauroides Prodesmodon
Ecology: amphibious carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Ukraine (1 collection), United States (7: California, Delaware, Florida, Louisiana, Texas)
• Oligocene of United States (1: Wyoming)
• Eocene of Germany (1), United States (1: North Dakota)
• Clarkforkian of United States (2: Montana, Wyoming)
• Paleocene of Canada (5: Alberta, Saskatchewan), France (3), United States (17: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)
• Cretaceous of Canada (62: Alberta, Saskatchewan), France (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (65: Colorado, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 169 collections including 199 occurrences