Reptilia - Dinosauria - Grallatoridae

Alternative combination: Prototrisauropus rectilineus

Full reference: P. Ellenberger. 1970. Les niveaux paléontologiques de première apparition des mammifères primoridaux en Afrique du Sud et leur ichnologie. Establissement de zones stratigraphiques detaillees dans le Stormberg du Lesotho (Afrique du Sud) (Trias Supérieur à Jurassique) [The paleontological levels of the first appearance of primordial mammals in southern Africa and their ichnology. Establishment of detailed stratigraphic zones in the Stormberg of Lesotho (southern Africa) (Upper Triassic to Jurassic). In: S. H. Haughton (ed.), Second Symposium on Gondwana Stratigraphy and Paleontology, International Union of Geological Sciences. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria 343-370

Belongs to Grallator according to P. E. Olsen and P. M. Galton 1984

Sister taxa: Eubrontes (Brontozoum), Eubrontes (Ichnites), Eubrontes (Ornithichnites), Eubrontes approximatus, Eubrontes cursorius, Eubrontes euskelosauroides, Eubrontes fieldi, Eubrontes giganteus, Eubrontes glenrosensis, Eubrontes lyellii, Eubrontes sillimani, Eubrontes tuberatus, Eubrontes veillonensis, Grallator (Eubrontes) divaricatus, Grallator (Eubrontes) platypus, Brontozoum expansum, Brontozoum thianschanicum, Grallator emeiensis, Grallator (Grallator), Grallator damanei, Grallator matsiengensis, Grallator molapoi, Grallator graciosus, Grallator minor, Grallator crassidigitus, Grallator palmipes, Grallator palustris, Grallator lambereshei, Grallator morijensis, Grallator moshoeshoei, Grallator princeps, Grallator limnosus, Grallator cuneatus, Grallator formosus, Grallator gracilis, Grallator sulcatus, Grallator tenuis, Grallator maximus, Grallator olonensis, Grallator variabilis, Grallator (Anchisauripus) hitchcocki, Grallator (Anchisauripus) minusculus, Anchisauripus tuberosus, Anchisauripus australis, Anchisauripus exsertus, Anchisauripus gwyneddensis, Anchisauripus minor, Anchisauripus milfordensis, Anchisauripus poolei, Anchisauripus bibractensis, Anchisauripus thomasi, Fulicopus minor, Gigandipus caudatus, Otouphepus declivis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Phuthiatsana tracksite, which is in a Carnian/Norian terrestrial claystone in the Molteno Formation of Lesotho

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore