Brighstoneus simmondsi Brighstoneus
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Brighstoneus 6 m (19.7 ft) long
4 people holding hands
- Length
- 6 m (19.7 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (126.5 Mya)
- Place
- United Kingdom
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Brighstoneus (after Brighstone, a village on the Isle of Wight) is a genus of hadrosauriform dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, England. The genus contains a single species, Brighstoneus simmondsi, known from a partial skeleton.
What we know
- Named by Lockwood et al., 2021.
- Body length estimated at about 6 m.
- Fossils found in United Kingdom.