Barrancapus cresapi Hunt et al. 1993 (prosauropod)

Reptilia - Saurischia

Full reference: A. P. Hunt, M. G. Lockley, and S. G. Lucas. 1993. Vertebrate and invertebrate tracks and trackways from Upper Triassic strata of the Tucumcari Basin, east-central New Mexico, USA. The Nonmarine Triassic. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 3:199-201

Belongs to Barrancapus according to A. P. Hunt et al. 1993

See also Hunt and Lucas 2007 and Klein and Lucas 2021

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NMMNH P-4782 (trackway A), a footprint. Its type locality is NMMNH Loc. 55, Barranca Creek, which is in a Lacian terrestrial horizon in the Bull Canyon Formation of New Mexico.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at NMMNH Loc. 55, Barranca Creek

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