Genus: Thecodontosaurus RILEY & STUTCHBURY, 1836
Etymology: Greek, theke, “sheath, socket”, Greek, odont- (odous), “tooth”, and Greek, sauros, "lizard": “Socket-toothed lizard”.
= Agrosaurus SEELEY, 1891 (nomen dubium)
Etymology: Greek, agro, "rual, wild" from agros, "open country, rual land," or agra, "hunting", both derivations for agro- are found in Greek, agrostes "Country dweller or hunter"; and Greek, sauros, "lizard."

Species: antiquus MORRIS, 1843
Etymology: Latin, antiqua, "ancient, old."

Neotype: BRSMG Ca7465/1

Locality: Fissure fill in Quarry Steps Quarry off Upper Belgrave Road in Clifton, Bristol, ST 572747, Bristol County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Old: Quarry in the Magnesian Conglomerate at Redland, the southeastern extremity of Durdham Downs?

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Rhaetian Stage, Latest Triassic Epoch, Late Triassic.

Material: A right dentary with 21 teeth.

Note: It was destroyed during a bombing raid on the BRSMG in November, 1940.

Neotype: BRSMG C4529/2 (old number BCM 2): Left dentary with teeth.

Referred material:

As per GALTON, 2008 (2007)

BRSMG/BCM Ca7453/66: Incomplete right humerus.

BRSMG/BCM Ca7477b/37: Gracile right humerus.

BRSMG/BCM Cb4265: Gracile right humerus with incomplete ends.

ANSP 9857: Neural spine.
Note: With Archosaur indeterminate proximal right scapula and adjacent part of coracoid.

BMNH R1108: Cast of neotype BRSMG C4529/2.

LOMAX & TAMURA, 2014

BRSMG Ca7456: Burnt femur.

BRSMG Ca7467: Partial cervical vertebra.

BRSMG Ca7481: Right scapula.

BRSMG Ca7485: Metacarpal.

BRSMG Ca7486: Right ulna.

BRSMG Ca7451: Metatarsal and ungual.

BRSMG Ca7947: Fibula.

BRSMG Ca7510: 3 articulateed caudal vertebrae.

BRSMG Cb4181: Left ilum.

BRSMG Cb4187: Claw.

BRSMG C4528: Rib.

BRSMG C4530: Partigal right femur.

BRSMG C4531: Partial left tibia.

BRSMG C4532: Associated caudal vertebrae.

BRSMG C4533: Dorsal vertebra.

 

ALLEN, 1908

Locality: Warwick, Warwickshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Lower Keuper.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Triassic.

Material:

Warwick Museum: A vertebrae.
Note: Originally referred to Labyrinthodon pachygnathus by Owen, in Trans. Geol. Soc. Ser. 2, Vol. vi, 1842, Pl XLV, figs. 1-8.

Warwick Museum: 3 sacral vertebrae.
Note: Originally figured by T. H. Huxley, Quart. Geol. Soc. Vol. XXVI, 1869, Pl. III, Fig 9, p. 46.

 

VAN DEN BERG, WHITESIDE, VIEGAS, SCHOUTEN & BENTON, 2012

Locality: Tytherington Quarry (ST 660 890), 16 km north of Bristol, (ST 660890), Bristol, South Gloucestershire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Fissure Fill.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Carnian/Norian Stage, Upper Late Triassic Epoch, Late Triassic.

Material:

Numbers: Not given: 26 teeth.

Morphotype 1

BRSUG 29372-42: Tooth.

LOMAX & TAMURA, 2014

Number: Not given: Partial skeleton.

 

GERVAIS, 1861/1873

Locality: La Chappon, near Saint-Rambert, Ain Department., France.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Triassic.

Material:

Number: Not given: Teeth.
Note: Some may be from fabrosaurids? Or from Plateosaurus (GALTON, 1998)

 


HUENE, 1907-08

Locality: Coton End, Warwick, Warwickshire County, England, United Kingdom.

Horizon: Lower Keuper.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Ladinian Stage, Upper Mid Triassic Epoch, Middle Triassic

Material:

Number: Not given: Dorsal centra, dorsal vertebrae, sacral vertebrae, left ischium, distal end of left tibia.

 

Locality: Bromsgrove, Warwickshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Lower Keuper.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Triassic.

Material:

Number: Not given: Caudal vertebrae.

 


= Thecodontosaurus playtodon LYDEKKER, 1890

Locality: Somerset County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Lower? Keuper.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Triassic.

Material:

BMNH R1695: Crowns of 2 teeth.

 

Locality: Bristol bone-bed, Gloucestershire County, England.

Horizon: Lower Keuper.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Triassic.

Material:

BMNH R1551: Mass of rock showing the ventral surface of a phalangeal of the pes.

 

MUSSINI, WHITESIDE, HILDEBRANDT & BENTON, 2019

Locality: Fissure 2 at Tytherington Quarry, south Gloucesterhsire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Fissure Fill.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Carnian/Norian Stage, Upper Late Triassic Epoch, Late Triassic.

Material:

Archosaur morphotype A

BRSUG 29956-12: Tooth fragment.

Archosaur morphotype F

BRSUG 29956-17: Tooth.

BALLEL, RAYFIELD & BENTON, 2020

BRSUG 23613: Left ilum.

BRSUG 23646: Ungual phalanx of manual digit II or III.

BRSUG 23608: Proximal portion of right humerus.

BRSUG 23615: Left femur.

BRSUG 23621: Left tibia.

BRSUG 23627: Left metatarsal III.

BRSUG 26594: Right radius.

BRSUG 26598: Left ulna.

BRSUG 26627: Right metatasal II.

BRSUG 26639: Ungual phalnax of manual digit I.

BRSUG 26606: Left metatarsal I.

BRSUG 26660: Left postorbital.

BRSUG 26634: Proximla portion of left fibula.

BRSUG 26612: Right coracoid.

BRSUG 26614: 2 articualted middle caudal vertebrae.

BRSUG 26629: Posterior dcrvical vertebra.

BRSUG 26585: Right metatacarpal II.

BRSUG 28126: Anterior end of right scapula.

BRSUG 28130: Second sacral vertebra.

BRSUG 2811: Distal portion of left humerus.

BRSUG 28161: Left metacarpal I.

BRSUG 28198: Right atlantal neuraphophysis.

BRSUG 28201: Left surangular.

BRSUG 28218: PRoximal phalanx ofpedal III.

BRSUG 28221: Left maxilla.

BRSUG 28223: Left squamosal.

BRSUG 28224: Left jugal.

BRUSG 28230: Basiccipitla.

BRSUG 28234: Right occipital.

BRSUG 29372-2806: Middle dorsal vertebra.

BRSUG 29372-2812: Mid-posterior caudal vertebra.

BRSUG 29372-2828: Right metacarpal III

BRSUG 29372-2830: Middle caudal vertebra.

BRSUG 29372-2832: Proximal phalanx.

BRSUG 29372-2839: Distal pedal phalanx.

BRSUG 29372-2840: Distal pedal phalanx II.

BRSUG 29372-2842: Mid-cervical neural arch.

BRSUG 29372-2843: Mid-anterior caudal vertebra.

BRSUG 29372-2848: Posterior dorsal vertebra.

BRSUG 29372-2851: Proximal phalanx of pedal digit IV.

BRSUG 29372-2855: Left frontal.

BRSUG 29372-3349: Left scapula.

BRSUG 29372-3811: Posterior dorsal vertebra.

BRSUG 29372-3812: Right metatarsal IV.

BRSUG 29372-3285: Chevron.

BRSUG 29372-3338: Left ischium.

BRSUG 29382-3592: Head of right dorsal rib.

BRSUG 29372-3595: Proximal portion of left dorsal.

BRSUG 26596: Left quadrate.

 

WINWOOD, 1906

Locality: Bristol, Gloucestershire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Keuper.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Triassic.

Material:

Bath Museum, Moore Collection: Teeth.

 

HUENE, 1907-08/MURCHISON & STRICKLAND,

Locality: Warwick, Warwickshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Keuper.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Triassic.

Material:

Number: Not given: Tooth.

 

= Agrosaurus macgillivrayi SEELEY, 1891
Etymology: In honor of Mr. Macgillivray during the voyage of the ‘Fly’, who collected the specimen.
= Thecodontosaurus macgillivrayi (SEELEY, 1891) HUENE, 1906

Holotype: BMNH 49984

Locality: Probably from Durdham Down near Bristol, Gloucestershire County, England.

Note: Originally described from York Peninsula, Unknown, North East Coast of Queensland State, Australia.

Horizon: Unknown.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Jurassic?

Material: Left tibia, proximal end of right tibia, distal end of right radius, claw and a broken tooth.

Referred material:

QM F11614: Cast of tibia.

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