Genus: Cryptovaranoides WHITESIDE, CHAMBI-TROWELL & BENTON, 2022
Etymology: Greek, crypto, "hidden" and Latin, varan (from Arabic Waran meaning "dragon-lizard"), and Greek, suffix -oides, "like". "Hidden, lizard-like (aniaml), referring to the fact that this fossil has remained unrecognized in a collection for nearly 70 yeras and that it was a small lizar-like animal, living on karst limestone, perhaps hiding in the grykes (crevices).

Species: microlanius WHITESIDE, CHAMBI-TROWELL & BENTON, 2022
Etymology: Greek, micro, "small" and Latin, lanius, “butcher”, The recruved blade-like teeth demonstrate that the animal was a small efficient predator that could capture and immoblize prey quickly.

Holotype: NHMUK PV R36822

Locality: Carboniferous LImestone, Cromhall Quarry, Tortworth, Gloucestershire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Equivalent of Cotham Member, Lilstock Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Probably late Rhaetian, Late Triassic Stage, Latest Triassic.

Material:A partial articulated anterior skeleton and associated partial skull and lower jaw; right mandible with associated quadrate, jugal, postorbital, otoccipital, basicranial bones, articulated cervical and anterior dorsal vertebrae, as well as pectoral girdle and forelimb elemetns. NEarby are further articulated dorsal vertebrae, followed by a basioccipital from a larger individual.

Referred material:

NHMUK R36999: Left maxilla.

NHMUK R37001: Left dentary.

NHMUK R37273: Left coronoid.

NHMUK R37274: Left frontal.

NHMUK R37275: Sacral vertebra.

NHMUK R37276: Cervical vertebra.

NHMUK R37277: Dorsal vertebra.

NHMUK R37279: Right maxilla.

NHMUK R37280: Fragment of right maxilla.

NHMUK R37281: Right dentary.

NHMUK R37282: Frgment of left dentary.

NHMUK R37377: Braincase.

NHMUK R37378: Premaxilla.

NHMUK R37604: Left quadrate.