Batrachopus dispar Lull 1904 (aetosaur)

Reptilia - Pseudosuchia - Batrachopodidae

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

Belongs to Batrachopus according to P. E. Olsen and K. Padian 1986

See also Foster et al. 2025, Haubold 1969, Haubold 1971, Hay 1930, Lull 1904, Lull 1915 and Lull 1917

Sister taxa: Batrachopus argentinus, Batrachopus bakoenaorum, Batrachopus bellus, Batrachopus deweyi, Batrachopus gainensis, Batrachopus gracilis, Batrachopus grandis, Batrachopus pilosus, Batrachopus rugosus, Batrachopus supersaltator, Batrachopus tenuis, Batrachopus varians, Orthodactylus howelli, Sustenodactylus hollandicus, Comptichnus moorosi, Chelonoides wittei, Chelonoides robusta, Palamopus divaricans, Palamopus anomalus

Type specimen: ACM-ICH 21/ 7. Its type locality is Lily Pond Quarry, Gill, which is in a Hettangian fluvial-lacustrine siltstone/sandstone in the Turners Falls Formation of Massachusetts.

Ecology: herbivore

Distribution:

• Jurassic of United States (2: Connecticut, Massachusetts collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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