Genus: Smok NIEDZWIEDZKI, SULEJ & DZIK, 2012
Etymology: Polish, smok, "dragon."

Species: wawelski NIEDZWIEDZKI, SULEJ & DZIK, 2012
Etymology: In reference to Wawel Hill in Krakow, Silesia Province, Poland. Smok wawelski was a legeneary dragon living in a cave at the Wawel Hill in Krakow in the region of southern Poland near the excavation site.

Holotype: ZPAL V.33/15

Locality: Lipie Slaskie clay-pit, Lisowice, about 2 km west of Lubliniec, Silesia Province, Poland.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Norian-Early Rhaetian Stage, Lower Late Triassic Epoch, Late Triassic.

Material: Ventral part of the braincase wiht the basioccipital and basisphenoid and a separate articulating piece of the right exoccipital-opisthotic, including approximately half of hte paraoccipital process.

Referred material:

ZPAL V.33/16-56, 97-102, 220, 238, 239, 295-298, 300, 302-304, 306-309, 311-314, 461, 507: Skeletal elements possible associated with the type specimen.

NIEDZWIEDZKI & BUDZISZEWSKA-KAROWOWSKA, 2018

W NlZ/S/7/160: A fragment of femur.

W NlZ/S/7/163: A mid-shat of the humerus.

W NlZ/S/7/168: A middle part of the left ischium shaft.

W NlZ/S/7/170: Distal part of the right pubis, a fragmentary pubic "boot".

W NlZ/S/7/192, 198: Isolated teeth.

W NlZ/S/7/199: A mid-dorsal vertebra.

Coprolites

QVARNSTROM, AHLBERG, & NIEDZWIEDZKI, 2018, QVARNSTRÖM, WERNSTRÖM, WAWRZYNIAK, BARBACKA, PACYNA, GORECKI, ZIAJA, JARZNKA, OWOCKI, SULEJ, MARYNOWSKI, PIENKOWSKI, SHLBERG & NIEDZWIEDZKI, 2024

ZPAL V. 33/341: Numeorus internal bone fragments and crushed serrated teeth, a small splinter of a serrated tooth, the tip of a serrated tooth, base of a serrated tooth, temnospondyl dermal bone adn bone fragments.

ZPAL V.33/344: Coprolite with numerous bone fragments and crushed serrated teeth, worn serrated tooth, two pieces of serrated tooth fragmetns found ind fifferent parts of the coprolite, a flat bne with internal canales in obliwue view.

ZPAL V. 33/345: An archour rib, a partial rib.

ZPAL V. 33/342, /343, /346, /604: Large to medium-sized, elongated, bone-baring and phosphate-rich coprolites.

Note: ZPAL V.33/342, /344 and /345 have broken teeth and elements from beetles.