A recent high-pressure study on barium chromate BaCrO 4 reported a phase transition but the structure of the high-pressure phase structure could not be identified.This high-pressure phase was suggested to have a monoclinic structure different from other high-pressure forms of ABO 4 -type compounds. In this work, we have carried out x-ray diffraction measurements up to 46 GPa using He as quasi-hydrostatic pressure medium and Density-Functional Theory calculations. Our studies allow us identifying the high-pressure phase as the P2 1 2 1 2 1 post-barite-type phase, recently reported for