Genus: Poekilopleuron EUDES-DESLONGCHAMPS, 1838
Etymology: Greek, poikilos, "varied” and Greek, leuron, “rib, side”: Varied ribs.
= Peukilopleuron STROMER, 1934 (sic)
= Poecilopleuron BRONN, 1837 (nomen nudum)
= Poeiclopleuron FITZINGER, 1843 (sic)
= Poecilopleurum AGASSIZ, 1846 (sic)
= Poekilipleuron KUHN, 1965 (sic)
= Poelicopleurum KUHN, 1965 (sic)
= Poikilopleuron OWEN, 1841 (sic)

Species: bucklandii EUDES-DESLONGICHAMPS, 1838
Etymology: In honor of William Buckland.
= Megalosaurus poiklopleuron HUENE, 1923
= Poecilopleuron bucklandi BRONN, 1837 (nomen nudum)
= Poecilopleurum bucklandi (EUDES-DESLONGICHAMPS, 1838) (sic)
= Poikilopleuron bucklandi OWEN, 1841 (sic)

Holotype: Museum of Caen [Destroyed during WWII]

Locality: Maladrerie, Calcaire de Caen at Caen, Calvados Department, Normandy, France.

Horizon: Vesulie.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lower Bathonian Stage, Dogger Epoch, Middle Jurassic.

Material: 1 cervical, dorsals, 22 articulated caudal vertebrae, ribs, scapula, humerus, radius, ulna, part of manus, femur, tibia, fibula, astragalus, metatarsals, elements from manus and pes and all articulated gastralia.
Note: Possible gastroliths were found.
Note: Palaeopathologies, An anterior chevron is ankylosed to the succeeding caudal centrum with the development of an exostosis, and 2 phalanges also exhibit pathologies.

Note: Destroyed in WWII.

Referred material:

Locality: Quilly, Calvados Department, Normandy, France.

Horizon: “Grande Oolithe.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Jurassic.

Material:

Number: Not given: Tooth.

Note: Destroyed in WWII.

 


OWEN, 1854, (page 15-16.)

Locality: Brook Point, Isle of Wight County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Wealden Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Cretaceous.

Material:

Royal College of Surgeons: Half a dorsal centrum.