Batrachopus gilberti Lapparent and Montenat 1967 (aetosaur)

Reptilia - Pseudosuchia - Batrachopodidae

Full reference: A. F. d. Lapparent and C. Montenat. 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

Belongs to Batrachopus according to H. Haubold 1971

See also Bécaud 2007, Courel et al. 1968, Demathieu 2003, Demathieu and Haubold 1972, Demathieu and Sciau 1992, Haubold 1974, Lapparent and Montenat 1967, Moreau et al. 2019 and Viaud and Duclous 2003

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

Type specimen: Its type locality is Pointe du Veillon tracksite, F1, which is in a Rhaetian estuary/bay limestone in France

Ecology: herbivore

Distribution:

• Jurassic of France (2 collections)

• Triassic of France (1)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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