The dinosaur, made up of 149 bones, was discovered within the cliffs of Compton Bay on the Isle of Wight.
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The fossil stays of a plant-eating dinosaur estimated to have roamed the earth some 125 million years in the past have been found on England’s Isle of Wight, with scientists believing it to be probably the most full new specimen present in Britain in a century.
Weighing roughly the identical as a big male American bison at about 900 kilogrammes (1990 lbs), the herbivorous species was probably a herding animal, Jeremy Lockwood, a PhD pupil on the College of Portsmouth who helped with the excavation, mentioned in an announcement.
The dinosaur, made up of 149 bones, was discovered within the cliffs of Compton Bay on the Isle of Wight, off the southern coast of England, in 2013 by late fossil collector Nick Chase.
It was named “Comptonatus chasei” as a tribute to Chase.
“Nick had an outstanding nostril for locating dinosaur bones … This actually is a exceptional discover,” Lockwood mentioned.
“It helps us perceive extra concerning the several types of dinosaurs that lived in England within the Early Cretaceous,” mentioned Lockwood, additionally the lead creator of a brand new paper describing the species printed within the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.
The stays of a meat-eating dinosaur belonging to an historic predator larger than something identified from the entire of Europe have been found on the island in 2022. It was additionally from the Cretaceous Interval.
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