Genus: Oryctorhynchus SUES, FITCH & WHATLEY, 2020
Etymology: Greek, oryktos, "dug, mined," alluding to the inferred digging habits of rhynchosaurs and the derivation of the anme 'Minas Basin' from the French 'les mines,' and Greek, rhynchos, "snout."
= Hyperodapedon sp BAIRD 1963/HUBER, LUCAS & HUNT, 1993
= Scaphonyx sp HUNT & LUCAS, 1991

Species: bairdi SUES, FITCH & WHATLEY, 2020
Etymology: In honro of Baird.

Holotype: NSM018GF009.012

Locality: Evangeline Beach, Kings County, Fundy Basin, Nova Scotia Province, Canada.

Horizon: Evangeline Member, Wolfville Formation, Newark Supergroup.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Carnian-earliest Norian Stage, Lower Late Triassic Epoch, Late Triassic.

Material: Fragment of a left maxilla.

Referred material:

NSM018GF009.001: Incompete fused parietals of large individual.

NSM018GF009.002: Basicranium of a large individual.

NSM018GF009.003: Incomplete left maxilla of a large individual.

NSM018GF009.004: Right premaxilla.

NSM018GF009.005: Fragment of left dentary with attached piece of splineal.

NSM018GF009.006: Poorly preserved piece of dentary.

NSM018GF009.007: Poorly preserved fragment of left dentary.

NSM018GF009.008: Fragment of left maxilla.

NSM018GF009.009: Fragment of left maxilla.

NSM018GF009.010: Nearly complete left maxilla of a juvenile individual.

NSM018GF009.011: Anterior portion of a left maxilla.

NSM018GF009.013: Small piece o fdentary of a juvenile individual.

NSM018GF009.014: Anterior portion of left dentary of a juvenile individual.

NSM020GF005.001: Left premaxilla.

YPM VPPU 020587: Fragment of right dentary.

 

Locality: Burntcoat headland, Hants County, Nova Scotia Province, Canada.

Horizon: Evangeline Member, Wolfville Formation, Newark Supergroup.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Carnian-earliest Norian Stage, Lower Late Triassic Epoch, Late Triassic.

Material:

NSM018GF009.015: Nearly complete right maxilla of a juvenile individual.