Genus: Elginia NEWTON, 1892
Etymology: In reference to the Elgin sandstone of Scotland.

Species: mirabilis NEWTON, 1892
Etymology:

Holotype: GSE 4780-4788

Locality: Cutties Hillock Quarry, Near Elgin, Morayshire (NJ 185638), Grampian Province, Scotland, Northern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Cutties Hillock Sandstone Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Tatarian Stage, Lopingian Subepoch, Zechstein Epoch, Late Permian.

Referred material:

BENTON & WALKER 1985

RSM 1956.8.1-2: Skull lacking snout, palate, and parts of skull table, fragments of lower jaw, vertebral column lacking anterior cervicals and posterior dorsals, ribs, parts of both girdles, forelimbs, hindlimbs, osteoderms, all preserved as natural casts.