Its type ichnospecies is J. yuechiensis, with the genus being named after the Jialing River in Sichuan.
In the Hettangian/Sinemurian deposits of the Komló area (Mecsek Mountain, Hungary), footprints of Jurassic dinosaurs assigned to the ichnospecies Komlosaurus carbonis are more or less the only published palaeontological data of this region.