Genus: Loricatosaurus MAIDMENT, NORMAN, BARRETT & UPCHURCH,
2008
Etymology: Latin, loricatus, "armoured" and Greek, sauros, "lizard."
Species: priscus (NOPCSA, 1911) MAIDMENT, NORMAN, BARRETT & UPCHURCH,
2008
= Stegosaurus priscus NOPCSA, 1911
Etymology: Latin, priscus, "ancient."
= Lexovisaurus priscus (NOPCSA, 1911)
KUHN, 1964
Holotype: BMNH R3167
Locality: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.
Horizon: Oxford Clay.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Middle-late Callovian Stage, Upper Dogger Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material: Odontoid process of atlas, axis, 8 dorsal vertebrae, 14 caudal vertebrae, 3 cervical ribs, 2 chevrons, right humerus, ulna, carpal, metacarpals II and IV, right pubis, ischium, fragment of ilium, left femur, tibia-fibula-astragalus-calcaneum, right parasacral spine and pieces of large dermal plate.
Note: MAIDMENT, NORMAN, BARRETT & UPCHURCH, 2008, don't believe the right parasacral spine is what it has been referred to but a fragmentary tail spine.
Note: Found in a marine deposit.
Referred material:
MHBR 001: Cervical, dorsal, caudal vertebrae, left humerus, right femur, tibia, fibula and dermal armor.