Genus: Borealestes WALDMAN & SAVAGE, 1972
Etymology: Greek, boreas, “north wind" and Greek, lestes, “thief”: Northern thief.

Species: serendipitus WALDMAN & SAVAGE, 1972
Etymology: Trivial name from noun serendipity, defined as the faculty of making happy and unexpected discoveries by accident.

Holotype: BRSUG (old UGBM) 20570

Locality: Locality UB 7111, Isle of Skye, Inverness-Shire County, Scotland, Northern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Great Estuarine Series.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Middle Bathonian Stage, Middle Doger Epoch, Middle Jurassic.

Material: Left mandible with 2 premolars and part of a third, 4 molars fully erupted, one unerupted and alveolus of a sixth.

Paratype: UBGM 20571: Left mandible with four molars.

Referred material:

SIGOGNEAU-RUSSELL, 2003b

NHMUK (old BMNH) J.58, J.841, ?J.549: Right posterior molar fragments.

NHMUK (old BMNH) J.521, J.610, J.791: Left molars.

NHMUK (old BMNH) ?J.39, ?J.116: Right milk teeth?

NHMUK (old BMNH) J.869: Right milk tooth but main cusp not oblique.

 

PANCIROLI, BENSON & LUO, 2019

Locality: Isle of Skye, Inverness-Shire County, Scotland, Northern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Kilmaluag Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Middle Bathonian Stage, Middle Doger Epoch, Middle Jurassic.

Material:

BRUSUG 20571: Fragment of a left dentary.

BRSUG 29007: Fragment of right dentary.

BRSUG 29008: 3 fragmentary molars in matrix.

NMS G.1992.47.121.1: Partial skeleton that included upper molar rows and some incisors.

NSM G.1992.47.121.3: Almost complete right dentary detached from NMS G.1992.47.131.1.

NMS G.2018/27.1: Fragmetn of right dentary in matrix.

NMS G.1992.47/121.4 (previously GRSUG 29006): Anterior upper incisors, premaxilla, and ndsal fragmtn.

 

Locality: Kirtlington, Oxfordshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Kirtlington Mammal bed, near base of the Forest Marble.

Biostratigraphy: Oppelia aspidioides Zone.

Age: Upper Bathonian Stage, upper middle Dogger Epoch, Middle Jurassic.

Material:

OUMNH J.79474, J.79475, J. 79498: Isolated lower molars.

NHMUK PV M46039, M46521, M46549, M46610, M.46791, M46841, M46842, M46389, M46399, M46401, M45688: Lower molars.

NHMUK PV M46316, M46396, M46607: Upper molars.

 

 

Locality: Unknown, near Elgol, Isle of Skye, Inverness-Shire County, Scotland, Northern United Kingdom.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy

Age: Middle Bathonian Stage, Middle Doger Epoch, Middle Jurassic.

Material:

NMS G.1992.47.121.2: Partial skeleton.

 

Locality: Watton Cliff, Dorset County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Forest Marble.

Biostratigraphy:

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

Material:

BMNH M 44301: Left molar.

PANCIROLI, BENSON & LUO, 2019

NHMUK PV46058, M44301, M46116: Lower molars.

NHMUK PV 46401, M46389, M46588: Teeth.

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Species: cuillinensis PANCIROLI, BENSON, FERNANDEZ, BUTLER, FRASER LUO & WALSH, 2021
Etymology: NMS G.2020.4.1.1

Holotype: NHMUK PV M46495

Locality: Cladach a' Ghlinne, Strathaird Peninsula, Isle of Skye, Inverness-Shire County, Scotland, Northern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Kilmaluag Formation.

Biostratigraphy: Retrocostatum Zone.

Age: Upper Bathonian Stage, upper middle Dogger Epoch, Middle Jurassic.

Material: A parital skull and postcranial remains.

Referred material:

BRSUG 20571, NMS G.2018.27.1: Fragment of right dentary in materix.

 

Locality: Kirtlington, Oxfordshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Forest Marble.

Biostratigraphy:

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

Material:

NHMUK PV M46394, M46448, M46580, M46871: Upper molars.

NHMUK PV M46316, M46396, M46607 (uncertain): Upper molars.

 

BENSON, BUTLER, EVANS, JONES, PANCIROLI, TALANDA & STIG, 2023

Locality: Elgol Coast Site of Special Scientific Interest (Elgol Coast SSI), Inverness-Shire County, Highland Province, Isle of Skye, Scotland.

Horizon: Elgol Lagerstätte, Kilmaluag Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Bathonian Stage, Dogger Epoch, Middle Jurassic.

Material:

NMS G.2022.4.1: Fragmentary skull and skeleton.