Genus: Horshamosaurus BLOWS, 2015
Etymology: In reference to
Horsham, the English down where the fossil was displayed, and Greek, sauros,
"lizard."
Species: rudgwickensis (BLOWS, 1996) BLOWS, 2015
Etymology: In honor of the Rudgwick Brickworks Company, where the specimen
was found.
= Polacanthus Nova (ANONYMOUS, 1995 as per BLOWS)
= Polacanthus rudgwickensis (BLOWS, 1996
Holotype: Horsham Museum, HORSM 1988.1546
Locality: Rudgwick Brickworks Company quarry, Rudgwick, N.G.R.TQ 085 343, West Sussex County, England, Southern United Kingdom.
Horizon: Wessex Formation, Wealden Group.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Barremian Stage, Lower Gallic Subepoch, Early Cretaceous Epoch, Early Cretaceous.
Material: Fragmentary skeleton comprising an almost complete dorsal vertebra,
and dorsal centrum, an anterior caudal centrum with fragments of others, the
proximal end of left scapula with a fragment of fused coracoid, distal end
of humerus, a nearly complete right tibia, rib fragments, two dermal ossifications
and many indeterminate fragments.