Columbosauripus ungulatus was named by Sternberg (1932). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is NMC 8551, a footprint, and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is 1.5 miles upstream from Gething's mine (A), Peace River Canyon, which is in an Albian terrestrial sandstone/shale in the Gething Formation of Canada.

It was corrected as Columbosauripus angulatus by Noda and Shikama (1941).