Reptilia - Pseudosuchia - Batrachopodidae

Alternative combination: Nanopodiscus tenuis

Full reference: P. Ellenberger. 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

Belongs to Batrachopus according to P. E. Olsen and P. M. Galton 1984

See also Ellenberger 1970

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

Type specimen: Its type locality is Masitise tracksite (zone B/2), which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian terrestrial sandstone in the Elliot Formation of Lesotho

Ecology: herbivore

Distribution: found only at Masitise tracksite (zone B/2)

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