NMING F8749
A partial skeleton including a damaged skull. Suffering from pyrite decay.
LEICT G221.1851
A substantially complete skeleton exposed in dorsal view. The specimen was proposed as a neotype for Rhomaleosaurus megacephalus (= Atychodracon megacephalus) (Cruickshank 1994b). This fossil, nicknamed the ‘Barrow Kipper’ after Barrow-upon-Soar where it was discovered (Taylor and Martin 1990), is on display at the New Walk Museum in Leicester, UK. This specimen…
Atychodracon
Holotype specimen of Atychodracon megacephalus in the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery (from Swinton, 1948). The specimen was destroyed during the Second World War.
The genus Atychodracon was erected by Smith (2015) to accommodate 'Rhomaleosaurus' megacephalus, because it is generically separarate from Rhomaleosaurus sensu stricto (Smith and Dyke 2008). A. megacephalus is closely related to Eurycleidus and some authors have regarded A. megacephalus as a distinct species of Eurycleidus. Three dimensional scan with texture (colour) removed…