Ascalabothrissops voelkli was named by Arratia (2000). Its type specimen is JM SCH 30a, b, a skeleton, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Stark Quarry, Schamhaupten, which is in a Kimmeridgian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone/bindstone in the Painten Formation of Germany. It is the type species of Ascalabothrissops.