Genus: Bromsgroveia GALTON, 1985
Etymology: Latinization of Bromsgrove, a locality in Warwick, England, from where the sandstone with the fossil material came.

Species: walkeri GALTON, 1985
Etymology: In honor of Dr. Alick D. Walker who first recognized the thecodontian nature of this material from Warwick.

OWEN 1842, GALTON 1977

Holotype: WARMS G.3 (WM Gz3a)

Locality: Coten (= Coton) End Quarry, Warwick, Warwickshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Upper part of Bromsgrove Sandstone Formation of Sherwood Sandstone Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Ladinian Stage, Upper Mid Triassic Epoch, Middle Triassic.

Material: Right ilium.

Cast: NHMUK R.2549.

Paratypes:

HUXLEY, 1870, HUENE, 1908, GALTON, 1985

WM Gz, 1, 2: A fused first and second sacral vertebra and a separate third sacral vertebra.

OWEN, 1842, (page 533, pl. 45, figs, 16, 17), GALTON, 1977 (fig. 6J), GALTON, 1985 (Figs 2E-I, 4H, I): Right ilium.

OWEN 1842, (Pl 45, figs 104), HUENE, 1908 (1908, fig 215), GALTON, 1985

WM Gz. 5: First dorsal vertebra.

HUENE, 1908, GALTON, 1985

WM G2. 970: Left ischium.

Referred material:

HUENE, 1908 (fig.228)

WARMS G.970: Left ischium.

= Thecodontosaurus sp ALLEN, 1908

Warwick Museum: A dorsal vertebra.
Note: Originally described by T. H. Huxley.

Warwick Museum: Left ischium, right ilium.
Note: Originally figured by OWEN, Trans. Geol. Soc. Ser. 2, Vol. V., Pl. LV, figs, 16, 17.

 

Locality: Griffin’s S. Quarry, Bromsgrove, near Brimingham, Warwickshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Middle Triassic.

Material:

BU 2473 (formerly 4410/768): Incomplete dorsal vertebra.

 


Locality: Warwick, Warwickshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Middle Triassic.

Material:

BMNH R2643: Fragmentary remains.
Note: ‘Cladyodon lloydi

 

BENTON, WARRINGTON, NEWELL & SPENCER, 1994/WALKER, 1969/HUENE, 1908, (fig. 210)

Locality: Emscote, near Warwick, England.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Middle Triassic.

Material:

Number: Not given: Distal end of? left humerus.

WARMS Gz, 121: Centrum of a dorsal vertebra.

/HUENE, 1908 (fig. 211)

WARMS Gz 128: Centrum of a mid-caudal vertebra.

 

BENTON, WARRINGTON, NEWELL & SPENCER, 1994/WALKER, 1969

Locality: Rock Hill (SO 948698), Bromsgrove, near Brimingham, Warwickshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Bromsgrove Sandstone Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Anisian Stage, Lower Mid Triassic Epoch, Middle Triassic.

Material:

BIRUG 768: Dorsal vertebrae ?seventh.

 

Locality: Warwick, Warwickshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Bromsgrove Sandstone Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Anisian Stage, Lower Mid Triassic Epoch, Middle Triassic.

Material:

NHMUK (BMNH) R2628: Cervical vertebra. (Following Nesbitt, 2005, Galton, 2012).

= Prosauropoda incertae sedis BENTON, WARRINGTON, NEWELL, & SPENCER, 1994/WALKER, 1969

WARMS Gz 982: Partial right humerus.

 

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