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Batrachosauroididae ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	37359	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=37359

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Proteida : Batrachosauroididae

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Temnospondyli
-	Lissamphibia
-	Batrachia
-	Caudata
order	Proteida
family	Batrachosauroididae	Auffenberg 1958

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Batrachosauroididae	family	belongs to Salamandroidea	stated with evidence	Auffenberg, 1958
Batrachosauroididae	family	belongs to Ambystomatoidea	stated with evidence	Estes, 1969
Batrachosauroididae	family	belongs to Ambystomatoidea	stated without evidence	Estes and Berberian, 1970
Batrachosauroididae	family	belongs to Proteidea	stated with evidence	Naylor, 1978
Batrachosauroididae	family	belongs to Proteida	stated without evidence	Naylor, 1979
Batrachosauroididae	family	belongs to Proteoidea	implied	Carroll, 1988
Batrachosauroididae	family	belongs to Proteoidea	stated without evidence	Sullivan, 1991
Batrachosauroididae	family	belongs to Proteida	stated with evidence	Shishkin, 2000
Batrachosauroididae	family	belongs to Caudata	stated without evidence	Peng et al., 2001
Batrachosauroididae	family	belongs to Urodela	stated without evidence	Skutschas and Gubin, 2012

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

145 - 140 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

13.6 - 5.3 Ma
Miocene

Environment

brackish,freshwater,terrestrial (based on Tetrapoda)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Temnospondyli)

Diet

carnivore (based on Temnospondyli)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Batrachosauroides ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	8	55.8 Ma Eocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Opisthotriton ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	133	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	56.8 Ma Paleocene
Palaeoproteus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	4	59.2 Ma Paleocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Parrisia ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	2	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Peratosauroides ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	13.6 Ma Miocene	13.6 Ma Miocene
Prodesmodon ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	35	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1958	Batrachosauroididae Auffenberg p. 172
1969	Batrachosauroididae Estes p. 232
1970	Batrachosauroididae Estes and Berberian p. 4
1978	Batrachosauroididae Naylor p. 567
1979	Batrachosauroididae Naylor p. 19
1981	Batrachosauroididae Estes

Year	Name and Author
1988	Batrachosauroididae Carroll
1991	Batrachosauroididae Sullivan p. 294
2000	Batrachosauroididae Shishkin p. 306
2001	Batrachosauridae Peng et al. p. 19
2001	Batrachosauroididae Weems and George p. 570
2012	Batrachosauroididae Skutschas and Gubin

References

Auffenberg W. (1958) A new family of Miocene salamanders from the Texas coastal plain, Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 21 2, 169-176

Estes R. (1969) The Batrachosauroididae and Scapherpetontidae, Late Cretaceous and early Cenozoic salamanders, Copeia 1969 2, 225-234

Estes R., Berberian P. (1970) Paleoecology of a Late Cretaceous vertebrate community from Montana, Breviora 343, 1-35

Naylor B. G. (1978) The earliest known Necturus (Amphibia, Urodela), from the Paleocene Ravenscrag Formation of Saskatchewan, Journal of Herpetology 12 4, 565-569

Naylor B. G. (1979) The Cretaceous salamander Prodesmodon (Amphibia: Caudata), Herpetologica 35 1, 11-20

Estes R. (1981) , Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie/Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology. Part 2. Gymnophiona, Caudata. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, xv-115

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Sullivan R. M. (1991) Paleocene Caudata and Squamata from Gidley and Silberling quarries, Montana, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 11 3, 293-301

Shishkin M. A. (2000) Mesozoic amphibians from Mongolia and the Central Asiatic republics, The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, 297-308

Peng J., Russell A. P., et al (2001) Vertebrate microsite assemblages (exclusive of mammals) from the Foremost and Oldman Formations of the Judith River Group (Campanian) of southeastern Alberta: an illustrated guide, Provincial Museum of Alberta, Natural History Occasional Paper 25, 1-54

Weems R. E., George R. A. (2001) Amphibians and nonmarine turtles from the Miocene Calvert Formation of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia (USA), Journal of Paleontology 87 4, 570-588 doi:10.1666/12-071

Skutschas P. P., Gubin Y. M. (2012) A new salamander from the late Paleocene–early Eocene of Ukraine, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 1, 135-148

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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