The dinosaur, made up of 149 bones, was found on the cliffs of Compton Bay on the Isle of Wight.
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The fossil remains of a herbivorous dinosaur thought to have roamed the Earth around 125 million years ago have been discovered on the Isle of Wight in England, and scientists believe it is the most complete new specimen found in Britain in a century.
Weighing about the same as a large male American bison, about 900 kilograms (1,990 pounds), the herbivorous species was likely a herding animal, Jeremy Lockwood, a University of Portsmouth doctoral student who helped with the excavation, said in a statement.
The dinosaur, made up of 149 bones, was found in the cliffs of Compton Bay on the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England, in 2013 by the late fossil collector Nick Chase.
It was named “Comptonatus Chasei” in Chase’s honor.
“Nick had a phenomenal nose for finding dinosaur bones… This is truly a remarkable discovery,” Lockwood said.
“This helps us understand more about the different types of dinosaurs that lived in England in the early Cretaceous,” said Lockwood, also lead author of a new paper describing the species published in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.
The remains of a carnivorous dinosaur belonging to an ancient predator larger than anything known in all of Europe were discovered on the island in 2022. It was also from the Cretaceous period.
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