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Batrachopus

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Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3238589	https://www.gbif.org/species/3238589
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	67448	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=67448

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Batrachopodidae : Batrachopus

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eosuchia : Batrachopodidae : Batrachopus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

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
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
-	Pseudosuchia
-	Suchia	Krebs 1974
-	Aetosauria
family	Batrachopodidae	Lull 1904
genus	Batrachopus	Hitchcock 1845

Scientific Name

Batrachopus Hitchcock, 1845

Name Published In

Abstr. Proc. Assoc. Amer. Geol.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Batrachopus	genus	belongs to Tridactylidaee	stated with evidence	Hitchcock, 1845
Batrachopus	genus	belongs to Batrachia	stated without evidence	Owen, 1861
Batrachopus	genus	belongs to Batrachopodidae	stated with evidence	Lull, 1915
Batrachopus	genus	belongs to Aetosauria	stated without evidence	Lull, 1917
Batrachopus	genus	belongs to Reptilia	stated without evidence	Lull, 1953
Batrachopus	genus	belongs to Thecodontia	stated without evidence	Kuhn, 1958
Batrachopus	genus	belongs to Pseudosuchia	stated without evidence	Kuhn, 1963
Batrachopus	genus	belongs to Batrachopodidae	stated with evidence	Haubold, 1969
Batrachopus	genus	belongs to Batrachopodidae	stated without evidence	Demathieu and Haubold, 1972
Batrachopus	genus	belongs to Batrachopodidae	stated with evidence	Olsen and Galton, 1984
Batrachopus	genus	belongs to Crocodylomorpha	stated without evidence	Olsen, 1995

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (5.3%)

First Recorded Appearance

247 - 237 Ma
Triassic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Diapsida)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

herbivore (based on Aetosauria)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Apatichnus bellus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Batrachopus bakoenaorum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	201 Ma Early Jurassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Batrachopus bellus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		6	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Batrachopus dispar ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	201 Ma Early Jurassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Batrachopus gilberti ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	199 Ma Early Jurassic
Batrachopus gracilis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		12	237 Ma Middle Triassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Batrachopus pilosus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	199 Ma Early Jurassic	199 Ma Early Jurassic
Batrachopus rugosus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	201 Ma Early Jurassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Batrachopus supersaltator ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Batrachopus tenuis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	201 Ma Early Jurassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Batrachopus varians ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Chelonides wittei ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Chelonoides robusta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Chelonoides wittei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Comptichnus moorosi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Macropterna divaricans species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Molapopentapodiscus pilosus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Molapopentapodiscus supersaltator species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nanopodiscus tenuis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orthodactylus howelli ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Palamopus anomalus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	201 Ma Early Jurassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Palamopus divaricans ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		4	201 Ma Early Jurassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Parabatrachopus argentina ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	145 Ma Late Jurassic	145 Ma Late Jurassic
Plateotetrapodiscus rugosus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sauroidichnites deweyi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		44	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Suchopus bakoenaorum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Chelonoides Hitchcock, 1858	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Batrachopodidae : *Chelonoides*
Anisopus Hitchcock, 1848	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Batrachopodidae : *Anisopus*
Exocampe Hitchcock, 1858	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Batrachopodidae : *Exocampe*
Suchopus Ellenberger, 1974	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Batrachopodidae : *Suchopus*
Arachichnus Hitchcock, 1858	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Batrachopodidae : *Arachichnus*
Stenodactylus Hitchcock, 1858	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Batrachopodidae : *Stenodactylus*
Macropterna Hitchcock, 1848	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Batrachopodidae : *Macropterna*
Antipus Hitchcock, 1858	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Batrachopodidae : *Antipus*
Comptichnus Hitchcock, 1865	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Batrachopodidae : *Comptichnus*
Cheirotheroides Hitchcock, 1858	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Batrachopodidae : *Cheirotheroides*
Sillimanius Hitchcock, 1845	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Batrachopodidae : *Sillimanius*
Nanopodiscus Ellenberger, 1970	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Batrachopodidae : *Nanopodiscus*
Parabatrachopus Lull, 1942	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Batrachopodidae : *Parabatrachopus*
Anisichnus Hitchcock, 1871	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Batrachopodidae : *Anisichnus*
Chirotheroides Hitchcock, 1858	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Batrachopodidae : *Chirotheroides*
Hectocampe Hitchcock, 1858	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Batrachopodidae : *Hectocampe*
Sustenodactylus Lull, 1904	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Batrachopodidae : *Sustenodactylus*
Arachnichnus Hitchcock, 1868	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Batrachopodidae : *Arachnichnus*
Orthodactylus Hitchcock, 1858	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Batrachopodidae : *Orthodactylus*
Chelonioides Hitchcock, 1858	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Batrachopodidae : *Chelonioides*
Shepardia Hitchcock, 1858	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia : Batrachopodidae : *Shepardia*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1845	Palamopus Hitchcock p. 24
1845	Batrachopus Hitchcock p. 25
1848	Anisopus Hitchcock p. 220
1848	Macropterna Hitchcock p. 233
1857	Chelonoides Agassiz
1858	Shepardia Hitchcock
1858	Orthodactylus Hitchcock p. 113
1858	Arachichnus Hitchcock p. 115
1858	Stenodactylus Hitchcock p. 116
1858	Arachichnus Hitchcock p. 117
1858	Cheirotheroides Hitchcock p. 130
1858	Exocampe Hitchcock p. 142
1861	Batrachopus Owen p. 191
1865	Comptichnus Hitchcock p. 9
1871	Anisichnus Hitchcock
1878	Chelonoides Portis p. 18
1898	Cheirotheroides Hitchcock p. 402
1898	Exocampe Hitchcock p. 402
1898	Macropterna Hitchcock p. 402
1898	Shepardia Hitchcock p. 402
1904	Chelonoides Lull p. 529
1904	Palamopus Lull p. 532
1904	Exocampe Lull p. 534
1904	Orthodactylus Lull p. 535
1904	Sustenodactylus Lull p. 537
1904	Arachichnus Lull p. 538
1904	Comptichnus Lull p. 538
1904	Shepardia Lull p. 538
1915	Batrachopus Lull p. 174
1915	Cheirotheroides Lull p. 179
1917	Batrachopus Lull p. 113
1917	Cheirotheroides Lull p. 114
1917	Chelonoides Lull p. 123
1917	Exocampe Lull p. 124

Year	Name and Author
1917	Palamopus Lull p. 124
1917	Orthodactylus Lull p. 125
1917	Shepardia Lull p. 125
1917	Sustenodactylus Lull p. 125
1917	Arachichnus Lull p. 126
1917	Comptichnus Lull p. 126
1942	Parabatrachopus Lull p. 422 figs. Pl. 1:1-2
1952	Orthodactylus Bock p. 421
1953	Batrachopus Lull p. 235
1957	Geochelone (Chelonoides) Loveridge and Williams
1958	Arachichnus Kuhn p. 17
1958	Orthodactylus Kuhn p. 17
1958	Sustenodactylus Kuhn p. 17
1958	Exocampe Kuhn p. 18
1958	Palamopus Kuhn p. 18
1958	Batrachopus Kuhn p. 21
1958	Comptichnus Kuhn p. 21
1963	Batrachopus Kuhn p. 66
1967	Batrachopus Lapparent and Montenat p. 33
1969	Batrachopus Haubold p. 97
1969	Cheirotheroides Haubold p. 97
1969	Comptichnus Haubold p. 97
1969	Shepardia Haubold p. 97
1970	Nanopodiscus Ellenberger p. 348
1971	Geochelone (Chelonoides) Auffenberg p. 106
1971	Batrachopus (Anisopus) Haubold p. 61
1971	Batrachopus (Comptichnus) Haubold p. 61
1972	Batrachopus Demathieu and Haubold p. 805
1974	Suchopus Ellenberger p. 114
1984	Batrachopus Olsen and Galton p. 99
1995	Batrachopus Olsen p. 176
2003	Batrachopus Rainforth p. 827
2006	Batrachopus Lucas et al. p. 113

References

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Hitchcock E. An attempt to discriminate and describe the animals that made the fossil footmarks of the United States, and especially of New England, Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, new series 3, 129-256

Hitchcock E. , Ichnology of New England. A Report on the Sandstone of the Connecticut Valley, Especially its Fossil Footmarks, Made to the Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, xii-214

Owen R. , Palaeontology, or a Systematic Summary of Extinct Animals and their Geological Relations. Second Edition. Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh, 1-463

Hitchcock E. Supplement to the ichnology of New England, Supplement to the Ichnology of New England. A Report to the Government of Massachusetts in 1863, 1-37

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Hitchcock C. H. Recent progress in ichnology, Geology of Old Hampshire County, Massachusetts Comprising Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden Counties. Monographs of the United States Geological Survey 29, 400-406

Lull R. S. (1904) Fossil footprints of the Jura-Trias of North America, Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 5 11, 461-557

Lull R. S. (1915) Triassic life of the Connecticut Valley, State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin 24, 1-285

Lull R. S. (1942) Triassic footprints from Argentina, The American Journal of Science, series 5 240, 421-425

Bock W. (1952) Triassic reptilian tracks and trends of locomotive evolution, Journal of Paleontology 26 3, 395-433

Lull R. S. (1953) Triassic life of the Connecticut Valley (revised), State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin 81, 1-336

Kuhn O. (1958) , Die Fährten der vorzeitlichen Amphibien und Reptilien [The Tracks of Prehistoric Amphibians and Reptiles], 1-64

Kuhn O. (1963) Pars 101. Ichnia Tetrapodorum, In F. Westphal (ed.), Fossilium Catalogus. I: Animalia. Ysel Press, Deventer, Netherlands, 1-176

Lapparent A. F. d., Montenat C. (1967) Les empreintes de pas de reptiles de l'Infralias de Veillon (Vendée) [Reptile footprints from the lower Lias of Veillon (Vendée)], Mémoires de la Société géologique de France, nouvelle série 107, 1-44

Haubold H. (1969) Die Evolution der Archosaurier in der Trias aus der Sicht ihrer Fährten [The evolution of archosaurs in the Triassic from the perspective of their tracks], Hercynia 6 1, 90-106

Ellenberger P. (1970) Les niveaux paléontologiques de première apparition des mammifères primoridaux en Afrique du Sud et leur ichnologie. Establissement de zones stratigraphiques detaillees dans le Stormberg du Lesotho (Afrique du Sud) (Trias Supérieur à Jurassique) [The paleontological levels of the first appearance of primordial mammals in southern Africa and their ichnology. Establishment of detailed stratigraphic zones in the Stormberg of Lesotho (southern Africa) (Upper Triassic to Jurassic)., In: S. H. Haughton (ed.), Second Symposium on Gondwana Stratigraphy and Paleontology, International Union of Geological Sciences. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, 343-370

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Olsen P. E., Galton P. M. (1984) A review of the reptile and amphibian assemblages from the Stormberg of southern Africa, with special emphasis on the footprints and the age of the Stormberg, Palaeontologia Africana 25, 87-110

Olsen P. E. (1995) Paleontology and paleoenvironments of Early Jurassic age strata in the Walter Kidde Dinosaur Park (New Jersey, USA), In J. E. B. Baker (ed.), Field Guide and Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Geological Association of New Jersey. Geological Association of New Jersey, William Patterson College, 156-190

Lucas S. G., Lockley M. G., et al (2006) Biostratigraphic significance of tetrapod footprints from the Triassic-Jurassic Wingate Sandstone on the Colorado Plateau, The Triassic-Jurassic Terrestrial Transition. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 37, 109-117

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