Genus: Becklesius ESTES, 1983
Etymology:

Species: hoffstetteri (SEIFFERT, 1973) ESTES, 1983
Etymology: In honor of Robert Hoffstetter.
= Becklesisaurus hoffstetteri SEIFFERT, 1973

Holotype: FUB GUI A 56

Locality: Guimarota lignite mine (Mina de Lignito Guimarota), 1.5 km SSE of Leiria, Leiria District, Portugal.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Kimmeridgian Stage, Middle Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material: Left dentary with teeth.

Referred material:

GUI A 45: Fragmentary dentary.

GUI GE 7: Dentary fragment with tooth.

GUI GE 14, L 31, L 34, FUB P.P. I-l.6: Maxillae.

GUI L 56, 398: Dentary fragments.

BROSCHINSKI, 2000

Gui Squ 6: Pathologic dentary fragment.
Note: Teeth with double roots.

Gui Squ 7: Osteoderms.

Gui Squ 9: Osteoderm from skull roof?
Gui Squ 19 (“Gui A. 56”): Tooth.

 

= Becklesius aff. hoffstettteri FOLIE, CODREA, DICA, GARCIA, GODEFROIT, SMITH & VAN ITTERBEECK, 2001, FOLIE & CODERA, 2005

Locality: 500 m south of Pui Village, Pui Islaz, along the Barbat River, Hateg Basin, Romania.

Horizon: Sanpetru Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Maastrichtian Stage, Upper Senonian subepoch, Upper Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

PSMUBB V 365: Incomplete left dentary.

 

= Macellodus brodiei HOFFSTETER, 1967 non OWEN, 1854
Etymology:

Holotype: BMNH R8182

Locality: Durlston Bay, Swanage, isle of Purbeck, Dorset County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Portlandian, Middle Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

BMNH R 8081: Dentary.

BMNH R 8120: Fragment of maxilla, dentary, pterygoid, osteoderm.

BMNH R 8113: Fragment of dentary and nasal.

BMNH R 8204: Fragment of maxilla, dentary, parietal, supraangular, vertebrae, femur, ulna and tarsal bones.

22 fragments of dentary, 8 maxillaries, 4 teeth.

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Species: cataphractus RICHTER, 1994
Etymology: Latinized version of ‘Kataphraktos”, gepanzert, bedeckt; die whale des artnamens bezicht sich auf die osteodermalte panzerung der neuen Art von Beckleisus aus Una.

Holotype: IPFUB una L. 17a-17z

Locality: Braunkhole mine, soutwest of the village of Una, Cuenca Province, East Spain.

Horizon: Braunkhole, Lignite, Wealden.

Biostratigraphy: Atopochara trivolvis triqueta-Zone.

Age: Upper Barremium Stage, Lower Neocomian Subepoch, Early Cretaceous Epoch, Early Cretaceous.

Material: Skull and skeleton.

Paratypes:

IPFUB Una L. 465, L. 20b, L. 93, L. 96, L. 531: Dentaries.

IPFUB Una L. 595c: Isolated tooth.

IPFUB Una L. 50: Maxillia.

IPFUB Una L. 595b: Maxillary teeth.

IPFUB Una L. 1, L. 235: Jugals.

IPFUB Una L. 153: Frontal.

IPFUB Una L. 117, L. 468: Parietals.

IPFUB Una L. 2: Pterygoid.

IPFUB Una L.304: Scapulocoracoid.

IPFUB Una L. 11a: Intrclavicle.

IPFUB Una L. 304: Ilium.

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Species: nopcsai FOLIE & CODREA, 2005
Etymology: In honor of Baron Francis von Nopcsa, pioneer in palaeontological researches in Hateg Basin.
= Becklesius nova FOLIE, CODREA, DICA, GARCIA, GODEFROIT, SMITH & VAN ITTERBEECK, 2001

Holotype: PSMUBB V 361

Locality: 500 m south of Pui Village, Pui Islaz, along the Barbat River, Hateg Basin, Romania.

Horizon: Sanpetru Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Maastrichtian Stage, Upper Senonian subepoch, Upper Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material: Fragment of dentary with 4 complete teeth and 2 empty loci.

Referred material:

PSUMBB V 362: Incomplete dentary.

PSUMBB V 363, 364: 2 incomplete maxillae.

 

= ?Becklesius nopcsai CSIKI-SAVA, VREMIR, VASILE, BRUSATTE, DYKE, NAISH, NORELL, & TOTOIANU, 2015

Locality: Craguis Village, Hateg Basin, Hunedoara County, Western Romania.

Horizon: 'Upper Member', Densus-Ciula Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Maastrichtian Stage, Upper Senonian Subepoch, Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

LPB (FGGUB) v.809: Left dentary fragment.