Genus: Metriacanthosaurus WALKER, 1964
Etymology: Greek, metrikos, “moderate” and Greek, akantha, “spine” and Greek, sauros, “lizard”, Moderately spined lizard.
= Metricanthosaurus SWINTON, 1970 (sic)

Species: parkeri (HUENE, 1926) WALKER, 1964
Etymology: In honor of W. Parker.
= Megalosaurus parkeri HUENE, 1926)
= Megalosaurus (?Altispinax) parkeri (HUENE, 1926) HUENE, 1932

Holotype: OUM J. 12144

Locality: 1 1/2 miles north of Weymouth, Fuzy Cliff, Overcomebe, (SY 698818), Dorset County, England, Southern United Kingdom

Horizon: Corallian Oolite Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early-middle Oxfordian Stage, Lower Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material: 3 dorsal, 4 proximal caudal vertebrae, fragmentary right ilium, fragments of right and left ischium, right and left pubes, right femur, and upper part of left tibia.

Referred material:

OUM J12144/18, /23: Left ischium.

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