Species: alopekodes ENSOM & SIGOGNEAU-RUSSELL, 1998
Etymology: Greek, sly as a fox; an allusion to the horizon in the Cherty Freshwater
Member from the material comes, which is called the “Sly” by
the quarrymen of the Isle of Purbeck.
Holotype: DORCM GS 378
Locality: Sunnydown Farm Quarry, Langton Matravers, Dorset County, England, Southern United Kingdom.
Horizon: Cherry Freshwater Member, Lulworth Formation, Purbeck Limestone Group.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: ?Berriasian Stage, Lower Neocomian Subepoch, Lower Early Cretaceous Epoch, Early Cretaceous.
Material: A left lower molar.
Referred material:
DORCM GS 377: A right lower molar (probably from the same individual as the type, but the two molars did not occupy the same position in the dental sereis).