In 2018, Masrour and colleagues designated a neotype (FSA.G.54) based on an isolated, virtually identical footprint they found on the rediscovered type locality, and reclassified this ichnogenus as that of a pterosaur, most likely an azhdarchid.

[2] While Agairnichnus was initially described as lizard tracks, other researchers have doubted this classification since 2003, when two opposing interpretations of this ichnotaxon was proposed: American paleontologists Martin Lockley and John R. Foster claimed that Agadirichnus represented mammal tracks,[3] while French paleontologists Jean-Paul Billon-Bruyat and Jean-Michel Mazin suggested that it is a pterodactyloid pterosaurian ichnotaxon, possibly a senior synonym of Pteraichnus saltwashensis.

[4] This would make Agadirichnus the first described pterosaur ichnofossil in the history of paleontology, though other researchers still noted its uncertainty due to the poor preservation of the type specimen, suggesting that this taxon might be a nomen dubium.

[5][6] In 2018, Masrour and colleagues rediscovered the type locality and found an isolated footprint, assigned as the neotype, which confirmed the validity and pterosaurian identity of this ichnotaxon.

They also erected a new ichnofamily Agadirichnidae which contains both Agadirichnus and the azhdarchid ichnotaxon Haenamichnus from the Campanian Uhangri Formation of South Korea.