Barilium dawsoni

Generic ornithopod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Barilium 8 m (26.2 ft) long
as long as 5 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic ornithopod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Barilium
Length
8 m (26.2 ft)
Period
Early Cretaceous (140 Mya)
Place
Mexico · United Kingdom · New Mexico, USA
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Iguanodontidae

Barilium is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur which was first described as a species of Iguanodon (I. dawsoni) by Richard Lydekker in 1888, the specific epithet honouring the discoverer Charles Dawson, who collected the holotype during the 1880s. thumb|upright|left|Middle dorsal vertebra In 2010 it was reclassified as a separate genus by David Norman. The generic name Barilium is derived from Greek barys, “heavy”, and Latin ilium. Later in 2010, Kenneth Carpenter and Yusuke Ishida independently assigned it to the new genus Torilion, which is thus a junior objective synonym of Barilium. It is known from two partial skeletons found near St Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex, England, from the middle Valanginian-age Lower Cretaceous Wadhurst Clay. Lydekker based the species on the syntype series BMNH R798, 798a, 803-805, 806, 798b, 802, 802a and 799-801.

What we know

  • Named by (Lydekker, 1888 [originally Iguanodon]).
  • Body length estimated at about 8 m.
  • Fossils found in Mexico and United Kingdom.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Barilium — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.