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beaked plant-eater
Brighstoneus
Say it like this: “bri-STO-nee-us”
Brighstoneus simmondsi
Brighstoneus ate plants and walked on two or four legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in the United Kingdom.
- When
- Early Cretaceous (Barremian) · roughly 125.8 to 121.4 million years ago
- Named in
- 2021 · Lockwood, J. A. F.; Martill, D. M.; Maidment, S. C. R.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 6 m · 20 ft
- Weight
- 1 tonnes
- Found in
- the United Kingdom · Wessex
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two or four legs
- Kind
- beaked plant-eater · Ornithopod
- Family branch
- Hadrosauriformes
The story in short
The genus Brighstoneus dates to 2021, the year J. A. F. Lockwood and colleagues described it. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
It lived in the Early Cretaceous (Barremian), roughly 125.8 to 121.4 million years ago. Finds come from the United Kingdom, including the Wessex Formation. It was a herbivore and could move on two or four legs.
Published estimates put Brighstoneus at a length near 6 m and a body mass around 1 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Hadrosauriformes, among the ornithopod dinosaurs.