Dinosaur bones discovered on a rocky seashore on England's Isle of Wight are the remains of a meat eater that may be larger than any other unearthed from Europe.
Fossilised bones discovered on a rocky seashore on England's Isle of Wight are the remains of a meat-eating dinosaur that may be larger than any other known from Europe.Scientists are calling the dinosaur the "White Rock spinosaurid", based on the geological layer where the bones were foundPalaeontologists said they had found parts of the skeleton of the dinosaur, including bones of the back, hips and tail, and some limb fragments, but no skull or teeth.
Based on the partial remains, they estimated the as-yet unnamed dinosaur exceeded 10 metres long, but perhaps much more, and lived about 125 million years ago, during the Cretaceous Period. "The size of the specimen is impressive.
The researchers have not yet given the newly described dinosaur a scientific name because of the incomplete nature of the remains — but are calling it the "White Rock spinosaurid", based on the geological layer where the bones were found.
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