Brighstoneus
Name:
Brighstoneus
(named after the village of Brighstone).
Phonetic: Bry-sto-ne-us.
Named By: Jeremy A. F. Lockwood, David M.
Martill & Susannah C. R. Maidment - 2021.
Classification: Chordata, Dinosauria,
Ornithischia, Ornithopoda, Hadrosauriformes.
Species: B. simmondsi
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Roughly estimated to have been about 8
meters long.
Known locations: United Kingdom, England, Isle
of Wight - Wessex Formation.
Time period: Barremian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial skull, jaws and
some post cranial skeletal remains.
Brighstoneus
is a genus of hadrosauriform dinosaur that lived in the British
Isles during the early Cretaceous. One feature that immediately
stands out about Brighstoneus is the enlarged
nasal bone which would
have supported a bulla-like feature with convex sides on the tip of the
snout. Like other hadrosaurifom dinosaurs, Brighstoneus
would have
been a herbivore. Possible predators of Brighstoneus
might include
the dinosaur Neovenator.
Further reading
- A new hadrosauriform dinosaur from the Wessex Formation, Wealden
Group (Early Cretaceous), of the Isle of Wight, southern
England. - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 19 (12):
847–888. - Jeremy A. F. Lockwood, David M. Martill
& Susannah C. R. Maidment - 2021.
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