the doctor Jeremy Lockwood, a retired physician and currently a doctoral student at the Natural History Museum in London and the University of Portsmouth (England), discovered New genus and species of dinosaurs Iguanodon with unique features on the Isle of Wight in the UK, after serving a period of confinement, check out the chests full of bones. He explains that “this discovery made today one of the happiest days in confinement.”
The new dinosaur, described from a specimen found on Island English and shown in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology, corresponds to a group that also includes Iguanodon and Mantellosaurus. So far, the iguanodontian found in the Wealden Group (which is part of the Early Cretaceous) on the Isle of Wight usually refers to one of these two dinosaurs.
However, when Dr. Jeremy Lockwood examined the sample, he found several Unique Features Which distinguishes it from any of these other dinosaurs. “For me, the number of teeth was a sign,” he explains. “Mantellisaurus has 23 or 24, but this one has 28. He also had a bulbous nose, while other species have very straight noses. Together, these and others are small differences.” It’s obviously a new type“.
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The herbivorous dinosaur was about to It is eight meters long and weighs about 900 kilograms. describes dr. Lockwood species and names it Bridgestones Simondsee: Brighstoneus in the town of Brighstone, near the excavation site, and simmondsi in honor of Keith Simmonds, who discovered the specimen in 1978.
The discovery of this new species indicates that There were many Iguanodon dinosaurs more early Cretaceous in the UK than previously thought, and the simple assignment of specimens from this period to Iguanodon or Mantellisaurus must change.
“We’re looking at six, maybe seven million years of deposits, and I think the length of the genus has been exaggerated in the past – Lockwood asserts -. If that’s the case on the island, We can see many new species. It seems unlikely that two animals have been exactly the same for millions of years without change.”
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Dr Susanna Maidment, a museologist and co-author of the work, emphasized that “the description of this new species clearly shows that there is Greater diversity of dinosaurs Iguanodontians in the early Cretaceous in the United Kingdom than previously thought. It also shows that the centuries-old model that found Iguanodon bones that were safely found on the island belonged to Mantellisaurus and Iguanodon macroelements can no longer be proven.”
It was the Isle of Wight It has long been associated with the discovery of dinosaursand even provided the crucial specimens that led Sir Richard Owen to coin the term dinosaur. The authors conclude that the description of Brighstoneus simmondsi as a new species warrants a re-evaluation of the Isle of Wight material.
British dinosaurs They are not at all over something Lockwood says. I think we can be a little earlier Renaissance“.
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