Genus: Cruxicheiros BENSON & RADLEY, 2010
Etymology: Latin, cruz, "cross" and Greek, cheiros, "hand"; intended as 'cross
hand', a version of the locality name.
Species: newmanorum BENSON & RADLEY, 2010
Etymology: After the Newman family, owners of Cross Hands Quarry, Warwickshire,
United Kingdom.
Holotype: WARMS G15770
Locality: Cross Hands Quarry, near Little Compton, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom.
Horizon: Chipping Norton Limestone Formation.
Biostratigraphy: Zigzagiceras zigzag Biozone.
age: Lower Bathonian Stage, upper middle Dogger Epoch, Middle Jurassic.
Material: Partial right femur.
Paratypes:
WARMS G15771: Additional theropod material from the type locality that probably
represents the same individual as the holotype: An anterior dorsal or posterior
cervical vertebra, a dorsal neural arch, a partial dorsal vertebra, an anterior
half of a middle-distal caudal vertebra, a partial right scapulocoracoid, a
partial left ilium, the proximal end of a left pubis, numerous rib and bone
fragments.