Genus: Gigantosaurus SEELEY, 1869 (nomen dubium)
Etymology: Greek, gigant- (gigas) “giant” and Greek, sauros, “lizard”: “Giant
lizard”.
Species: megalonyx SEELEY, 1869 (nomen dubium)
Etymology:
= Pelorosaurus megalonyx (SEELEY, 1869) OLSHEVSKY, 1991 (nomen dubium)
Holotype: Woodwardian Museum J 29477
Locality: Between Sandsfoot and Portland Ferrry-bridge, Dorset County, England, Southern United Kingdom.
Horizon:
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Kimmeridgian Stage, Middle Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material: 1 cervical centrum?
Referred material:
Locality: Roswell Pits, Ely, (TL 555808, TL 552807), Cambridgeshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.
Horizon: Lower Kimmeridge Clay.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Lower Kimmeridgian Stage, Middle Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
Number: Not given: ?proximal end of a tibia.
or
NHMUK (old BMNH) 32498-99: Fibula and terminal phalanx.
Locality: Unknown, England, Southern United Kingdom.
Horizon:
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Kimmeridgian Stage, Middle Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
Number: Not given: 3 caudal vertebrae, and a cast of a larger caudal.