Brighstoneus

DV-1133 · 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

Field notes

About Brighstoneus

Brighstoneus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 126 to 121 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Brighstoneus, from United Kingdom. Its fossils come from the Wessex Formation. It was named by Lockwood et al. in 2021.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

125 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Hadrosauriformes.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, 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