Genus: Helioscopus MEYER, BROWNSTEIN, JENKINS & GAUTHER, 2023
Etymology: Ancient Greek, helios, "sun" and Latinization of the Ancient Greek, scopos, "watcher". after the prominent pineal foramen found in this species.

Species: dickersonae MEYER, BROWNSTEIN, JENKINS & GAUTHER, 2023
Etymology: In honor of Helen and Shierley Dickerson, the late grandmother and great aunt, respectiely of Dalton Meyer, as well as Mary Cynthia Dickerson, the first Curator of Herpetology and mentor to the celebrated lizard systematist Charles L. Camp, at teh American Museum of Natural History.

Holotype: DINO 15914

Locality: Dinosaur National Monument (DINO) site #317, Uintah County, Utah.

Horizon: Brushy Basin Member, Morrison Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Comobluffian, Tithonian Stage, Late Jurassic.

Material: Fragmentary skull and dentary; maxillae, prefonrtals, parietal, right postorbitofrontal and squamosal, left jugal, partial palatines, and right pterygoid, partial braincase, dentaries and the fused left posst dentary.