Genus: Sarcosaurus ANDREWS 1921
Etymology: Greek, sarkos “flesh” and Greek, sauros, "lizard": Flesh Lizard.
= Lissaurus WELLES, POWELL & PICKERING, 1995
Etymology:

Species: woodi ANDREWS 1921
Etymology: In honor of S. L. Wood, who discovered the specimen.
= Magnosaurus woodi HUENE, 1932

Holotype: NHMUK PF (old BMNH) R4840/1

Locality: Barrow-on-Soar, Wilmcote, Leicestershire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Lower Liassic.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lower Sinemurian Stage, Middle Lias Epoch, Early Jurassic.

Material: Anterior portion of left ilium with proximal end of pubis, acetabular region of right ilium with portions of proximal ends of pubis and ischium, posterior end of right ilium, fragmentary left femur and anterior half of a posterior dorsal vertebra.

Left): Upper end of femur; Middle) Anterior face of imperfect dorsal vertebra; Right) Outer side.

Referred material:

= cf. Sarcosaurus woodi CARRANO & SAMPSON, 2004, HUENE, 1932

Warwick Museum, numbers not given: Dorsal vertebra, dorsal centrum, fragments of left pubis, incomplete right pubis, right tibia, incomplete femora, proximal end of left tibia, distal half of fibula, incomplete left metatarsals II-IV, and proximal portion of a phalanx of the pes.

 

= Megalosaurus andrewsi HUENE, 1926a
Etymology: In honor of C. W. Andrews.
= Sarcosaurus andrewsi (HUENE, 1926a) HUENE, 1932
= Sarcosaurus woodwardi HUENE, 1932 (nomen nudum)
Etymology: In honor of Woodward.
= Meglosaur WOODWARD, 1908
= Magnosaurus woodi HUENE, 1932 (partim)
= Lissaurus huenei WELLS, POWELL & PICKERING, 1995
Etymology: In reference to Fredrich von Huene.

Holotype: NHMUK PV (old BMNH) R3542

Locality: Wilmcote, near Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Sinemurian Stage, Lower Lias Epoch, Early Jurassic.

Material: Tibia.