Genus: Toarcocephalus COOPER, LOPEZ-ARBARELLO & MAXWELL, 2024
Etymology: Generic name chosen for its discovery in Toarcian-aged strata, and Greek, cephalus, "head", denoting teh dignostic cranium.
Species: morlok COOPER, LOPEZ-ARBARELLO & MAXWELL, 2024
Etymology: naed after teh savage subterranean antagonists in H. G. Wells' The Time Machine (1895), due to thier similarly grotesque appearance characterised by large eyes, a blunt face and pointed teeth.
Holotype: SMNS 59978
Locality: G. Fischer Quarry, Holzmaden, Badden-Wurttemberg State, Germany.
Horizon: Posidonienschiefer Formation.
Biostratigraphy: semicelatum Subzone, tenuicostatum Zone.
Age: Lower Toarcian Stage, Lias Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material: A near-complete and articualted skul, missing the pre-orbital region.
Partype: SMNS 52044: An articualted skull with associated postcranial fragmetns preserved as a regurgitalite.