Navahopus Temporal range: Early Jurassic,
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Trace fossil classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
Ichnofamily: | †Navahopodidae |
Ichnogenus: | †Navahopus Baird, 1980 |
Type ichnospecies | |
†Navahopus falcipollex Baird, 1980
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Navahopus is an ichnogenus of dinosaur footprint that was made by an indeterminate navahopodid sauropodomorph once thought to have been a prosauropod that was alive during the Early Jurassic in southwestern United States. Two ichnospecies are known: the type ichnospecies, N. falcipollex (named in 1980[1]) and a second species, N. coyoteensis (named in 2008[2]). It is known from the Early Jurassic of Arizona (Aztec Sandstone and Navajo Sandstone), California (Aztec Sandstone) and Utah.[3]