Species: ferox SAUVAGE, 1873
Etymology: Latin, ferox, "wild, bold, fierce."
= Polyptychodon ferox (SAUVAGE, 1873) SAUVAGE, 1880
= Pliosaurus ferox (SAUVAGE, 1873) LYDEKKER, 1888

Holotype:

Locality: Wast, near Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais Department, France.

Horizon: Oxford Clay.

Biostratigraphy:

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

Material: Tooth.

Referred material:

ANDREWS, 1913

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

Horizon: Oxford Clay.

Biostratigraphy:

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

Material:

BMNH R3536: Skull, mandible, many teeth, atlas, axis, 20 cervical vertebrae mostly wanting neural arches and ribs, 23 centra of dorsal vertebrae, 14 caudal, numerous neural arches and cervical, dorsal, and
caudal ribs, ventral ribs, portions of coracoid and scapula, humerus, radius, ulna and numerous paddle-bones, pubes and ischium.

BMNH R2680: Nearly complete skull with numerous isolated teeth.

BMNH R2447: Nearly complete mandible.

BMNH R3901: 3 sclerotic plates.

BMNH R3537: Vertebral centra, neural arches, ribs, and an ischium of a very young individual.

BMNH R2738: Left coracoid, nearly complete, comparatively little crushed.

 

BARDET, 1993

Locality: “Vaches-noires” sea-cliffs, Villers-sur-Mer, Calvados Department, Normandy, France.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

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

Material:

Collection of G. & E. Pennetier: 2 isolated tooth crowns.

 

BIGOT

Locality: Viller-sur-Mer, France.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Jurassic.

Material:

Number: Not given: Teeth.

 

BROWN & KEEN, 1991

Locality: Kellaways Sand of Lincolnshire, Welton Gathern Centrae and Dunholme sites, Dorset County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Kellaways Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

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

Material:

Number: Not given: Teeth.

 

DELAIR, 1959

Locality: Weymouth, Dorset County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Oxford Clay.

Biostratigraphy:

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

Material:

BMNH R400: 2 large Phalangeals.

Number: Not given: Teeth.

 

FOFFA, YOUNG & BRUSATTE, 2018

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

Horizon: Corallian Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Middle Oxfordian Stage, Lower Malm Epoch, Lower Late Jurassic.

Material:

NHMUK PV R2680: Tooth.

GROSS

Locality: 50 m-Sohle, Kalkbruches, Wappin in Wartheland, Germany.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Oxfordian Stage, Lower Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

Number: Not given: Teeth.

 

LINDER,

Locality: Fletton, south of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Oxfordian Stage, Lower Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

Universitat Tubingen: Skull and fragmentary skeleton.

 

LYDEKKER, 1889

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

Horizon: Oxford Clay.

Biostratigraphy:

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

Material:

BMNH R1661: Cast of an anterior tooth.

BMNH R1661a: Cast of the centrum and ribs of a late cervical vertebra.

BMNH R1661b: Cast of the centrum of a later cervical vertebra.

 

LYDEKKER, 1890

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

Horizon: Oxford Clay.

Biostratigraphy:

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

Material:

Number: Not given: Fragmentary skull and fragmentary skeleton.

 

MADZIA, SZCZYGIELSKI & WOLNIEWICZ, 2021

Locality: Wapiennik (Wappin), Poland.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Oxfordian Stage, Malm Epoch, Early Late Jurassic.

Material:

Number: Not given: Tooth.

 

NOE, LISTON, & EVANS, 2003

Locality: From a brick pit in Whittlesey, south of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Peterborough Member or lowest Stewartby Member, Oxford Clay.

Biostratigraphy:

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

Material:

CAMSM J.27424: Left exoccipital-opisthotic.
Note: Orginally thought to belong to Leedichthys problematicus.

 

PERSSON

Locality: Argan Canton, Switzerland.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Oxfordian Stage, Lower Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

Number: Not given: Teeth.

 

Locality: Near Lauffen, Switzerland.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

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

Material:

Number: Not given: Skull, vertebrae and limb bones.

 

Locality: Rezhikia, the Moscow basin, European Russia.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

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

Material:

Number: Not given: Teeth and vertebrae.

 

SAUVAGE, 1873

Locality: Wast, near Boulogne-sur-mer, Pas-de-Calais Department, France.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Oxfordian Stage, Lower Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

Number: Not given: Teeth.

 

 

= Pliosaurus giganteus WAGNER, 1852
Etymology:

Holotype:

Locality: Bayern (Bavaria) State, Germany.

Horizon: Oxford Clay.

Biostratigraphy:

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

Material: Tooth.

Referred material:

MADZIA, SZCZYGIELSKI & WOLNIEWICZ, 202

Locality: Inowroclaw, Krzyzanowice, Poland.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Oxfordian stage, Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

Number: Not given: ?

 

= ?Ischyrodon meriani MEYER, 1856
Etymology:

Holotype: Natural History Museum Basel.

Locality: Anceps-Athleta Beds, Woflinswil, Northwestern Switzerland..

Horizon: Oxford Clay.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Callovian Stage, Upper Dogger Epoch-Oxfordian Stage, Lower Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material: Tooth.

 

= Pliosaurus giganteus TRAUTSCHOLD, 1860

Number: Not given.

Locality: Moscow Region, European Russia.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Oxfordian Stage, Lower Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material: Tooth.

= Thaumatosaurus mosquensis KIPRIJANOFF, 1883
Etymology:

Holotype: ZIN?

Locality: Moscow Basin, European Russia.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Oxford-Kimmeridgian Stage, Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material: Anterior cervical vertebra.

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Species: pachydeirus (SEELEY, 1869) TARLO, 1960
Etymology:
= Pliosaurus pachydeirus SEELEY, 1869

Holotype: Sedgwick Museum, J. 46912

Locality: Great Gransden, Cambridgeshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Oxford Clay.

Biostratigraphy:

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

Material: Atlas and axis together with 15 cervical vertebrae.

Referred material:

FOLLET, 1949

Locality: Ecouche, France.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Bathonian Stage, Middle Dogger Epoch, Middle Jurassic.

Material:

Number: Not given: Teeth.

 

MICHELIS, SANDER, METZDORF & BREITKREUZ, 1996

Locality: Wallucke, Wiehengebirge, northern Germany.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

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

Material:

TKDM 82/23.1: Teeth.

 

= Pliosaurus ferox LYDEKKER, 1888
Etymology: Latin, ferox, "wild, bold, fierce."
= Liopleurodon ferox (LYDEKKER, 1888) SAUVAGE, 1905

Holotype: BMNH R 2446

Locality:

Horizon: Oxford Clay.

Biostratigraphy:

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

Material: Exoccipital, anterior portion of premaxillae, vomers, ptergoids, palatines, transverse bones, numerous fragments of skull, symphysial and both articular portions of the mandible also many fragments, numerous teeth, centra of 10 cervical vertebrae, 2 dorsal and 3 caudal centra, neural arch of atlas, and four others, second subvertebrael wedge-bone, cervical ribs, imperfect humeri, radius, and ulna, femora, tibiae, fibulae and numerous other paddle-bones. Mandible and fragmentary skeleton.

Referred material:

LYDEKKER, 1889

Locality: Near St. Neots, Huntingdonshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Oxford Clay.

Biostratigraphy:

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

Material:

BMNH R 1713: Cast of the centrum of the 4th cervical vertebra.

BMNH R1713a: Cast of the centrum of the 15th cervical vertebra.

 

cf. L. pachydeirus 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 1000: Incomplete mandible.

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