Genus: Palaeomolgophis BROUGH & BROUGH, 1967
Etymology:

Species: scoticus BROUGH & BROUGH, 1967
Etymology: In reference to Scotland, the country of origin.

Holotype: RSM 1902.100.1

Locality: Broxburn, West Lothian Province, Scotland, northern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Pumpherston Oil Shale (curly seam), Lower Oil Shale Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Visean, upper Dinantian series, Asbian Stage,Visean Epoch, Early Carboniferous (Middle Mississippian).

Material: Fragmentary skull and fragmentary skeleton.