Reptilia - Aetosauria - Batrachopodidae
Synonyms: Anisichnus Hitchcock 1871, Anisopus Hitchcock 1848, Arachichnus Hitchcock 1865, Cheirotheroides Hitchcock 1858, Chelonoides Agassiz 1857, Comptichnus Hitchcock 1865, Exocampe Hitchcock 1858, Geochelone (Chelonoides) Agassiz 1857, Macropterna Hitchcock 1848, Orthodactylus Hitchcock 1858, Palamopus Hitchcock 1845, Parabatrachopus Lull 1942, Shepardia Hitchcock 1858, Sustenodactylus Lull 1904
Full reference: E. Hitchcock. 1845. An attempt to name, classify, and describe, the animals that made the fossil footmarks of New England. Sixth Annual Meeeting of the Association of American Geologists and Naturalists, New Haven, CT. Abstract and Proceedings 23-25
Parent taxon: Batrachopodidae according to P. E. Olsen and P. M. Galton 1984
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Batrachopus bellus, Batrachopus deweyi, Batrachopus dispar, Batrachopus gilberti, Batrachopus gracilis, Batrachopus pilosus, Batrachopus rugosus, Chelonoides robusta, Chelonoides wittei, Comptichnus moorosi, Orthodactylus howelli, Palamopus anomalus, Palamopus divaricans, Parabatrachopus argentina
Type: Sauroidichnites deweyi
Ecology: herbivore