Outline: a typical ornithopod
Barilium
"heavy hip"
Type species Barilium dawsoni
- Lived
- 137 to 133 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods, Iguanodontidae
- Found in
- United Kingdom
- Named by
- Norman 2010
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
135 million years ago
Field notes
About Barilium
What it was like
Barilium was a large, heavily built plant eater, a relative of Iguanodon. It had strong hips and probably walked on all fours much of the time.
Its world
It lived about 137 to 133 million years ago, in the Early Cretaceous, in what is now England. Its bones come from the Wadhurst Clay, a land of rivers and floodplains shared with the plant eater Hypselospinus and the armored Hylaeosaurus.
How it was found
Its bones were first described as a species of Iguanodon. Norman gave it its own genus in 2010. The type species is Barilium dawsoni.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Iguanodontidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: D. B. Norman. 2010. A taxonomy of iguanodontians (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the lower Wealden Group (Cretaceous: Valanginian) of southern England. Zootaxa 2489:47-66