| Navahopus Temporal range: Early Jurassic, 189.6–175.6 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Trace fossil classification 
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| 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) and a second species, N. coyoteensis (named in 2008). It is known from the Early Jurassic of Arizona (Aztec Sandstone and Navajo Sandstone), California (Aztec Sandstone) and Utah.
See also
References
- Baird, D. (1980). A prosauropod dinosaur trackway from the Navajo Sandstone (Lower Jurassic) of Arizona. Aspects of Vertebrate History: Essays in Honor of Edwin Harris Colbert, L.L. Jacobs (ed.), Museum of Northern Arizona Press 219-230
- Milàn, J. Loope, D. B., and Bromley, R. G. (2008). Crouching theropod and Navahopus sauropodomorph tracks from the Early Jurassic Navaho Sandstone of USA. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53(2):197-205
- Glut, Donald F. (2003). "Appendix: Dinosaur Tracks and Eggs". Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia. 3rd Supplement. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 613–652. ISBN 0-7864-1166-X.
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