Outline: a typical ornithopod
Brighstoneus
Type species Brighstoneus simmondsi
- Lived
- 126 to 121 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- United Kingdom
- Named by
- Lockwood et al. 2021
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
125 million years ago
Field notes
About Brighstoneus
What it was like
Brighstoneus was a plant eater related to Iguanodon, with a bulbous bump on its nose. It is known from a partial skeleton, including skull bones and teeth.
Its world
It lived about 126 to 121 million years ago, in the Early Cretaceous, in what is now England. Its bones come from the Wessex Formation, where it lived alongside the plant eater Mantellisaurus, the fish-eating Baryonyx and the predators Neovenator and Eotyrannus.
How it was found
Lockwood and colleagues named it in 2021. The type species is Brighstoneus simmondsi. Its bones had long been stored in a museum as another genus. It is named after a village near where it was found.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Hadrosauriformes
Sources: WikidataNamed in: J. A. F. Lockwood, D. A. Martill, and S. C. R. Maidment. 2021. 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