Genus: Simolestes ANDREWS, 1909
Etymology: Greek, simos, “snub-nosed, depressed, concave” and Greek, lestes, “robber”: Snub-nosed robber.

Species: indicus (LYDEKKER, 1877) BARDET, MAXIN, GARIOU, ENAY & KRISHNA, 1991
Etymology: In reference to India, where the specimen was found.
= Plesiosaurus indicus LYDEKKER, 1877
= Thaumatosaurus indicus (LYDEKKER, 1877) LYDEKKER, 1889
= Rhomaleosaurus indicus (LYDEKKER, 1877)

Holotype: Indian Museum of Calcutta

Locality: Kutch (Kach) Province, India.

Horizon: Umia Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material: Symphysis of mandible.
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Species: vorax ANDREWS, 1909
Etymology:

Holotype: BMNH R 3319

Locality: Peterborough, Cambridgeshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Oxford Clay.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Callovian Stage, Upper Dogger Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material: Skull missing most of the anterior end, mandible, vertebral column, pectoral girdle, and parts of the fore paddles, pelvic girdle, and parts of hind paddles and some ventral ribs.

Referred material:

BMNH R3170: Portions of skull, nearly complete mandible, teeth, anterior wedge-bone of atlas, numerous much-crushed centra of vertebrae, including 5 cervicals, and 10 caudals, imperfect scapula, portions of coracoids, humeri, radius, ulna, ?ilium, femora, tibiae, fibulae and numerous paddle-bones.

 

BARDET, 1993

Locality: Quarry of Argences, Calvados Department, Normandy, France.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Callovian Stage, Upper Dogger Epoch, Middle Jurassic.

Material:

Coll. R. Brun, Museum of Le Havre, MHNH 1001: Crown of a tooth.

 

CICIMURRI & EVERHART, 2001

Locality: England.

Horizon: Peterborough Member, Oxford Clay.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Callovian Stage, Upper Dogger Epoch, Middle Jurassic.

Material:

PETMG R296: Fragmentary specimen.
Note: Cephalopods and gastroliths found in the stomach region.

 


PERSSON

Locality: Rezhika, the Moscow basin, European Russia.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Callovian Stage, Upper Dogger Epoch, Middle Jurassic.

Material:

Number: Not given: Teeth.

 

 

= Thaumatosaurus calloviensis BOGOLOBOV, 1911
Etymology:

Holotype: MGRI

Locality: Moscow Region, European Russia.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Callovian Stage, Upper Dogger Epoch, Middle Jurassic.

Material: Tooth.

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