Comptonatus

DV-1231 · type species Comptonatus chasei

Lived: 126 to 121 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Group: Ornithopods
Found in: United Kingdom
Named by: Lockwood et al. 2024

Field notes

About Comptonatus

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

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Comptonatus, from United Kingdom. Its fossils come from the Wessex Formation. It was named by Lockwood et al. in 2024.

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. M. Martill, and S. C. R. Maidment. 2024. Comptonatus chasei, a new iguanodontian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, southern England. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 22(1):2346573