New species Comptonatus chasei was a grazing giant that roamed the floodplains of Britain 125 million years ago, study finds
An artist’s impression of a Comptonatus chasei, unearthed in the cliffs of Compton Bay discovered on the Isle of Wight was a plant-eating creature the size of an American bison which roamed the British Isles some 125 million years ago, researchers have found.
It belongs to a group of herbivorous animals known as iguanodontians – large, bulky creatures often described as the “cows of the Cretaceous period”, which lasted from 145 to 66 million years ago.It was first unearthed over a decade ago in the cliffs of Compton Bay on the Isle of Wight’s south-west coast, but scientists at Portsmouth University have only now completed an exhaustive analysis of the fossils.
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