Comptonatus chasei was a plant-eater about the size of a big male American bison, scientists said.
A new species of plant-eating dinosaur that was as big male American bison roamed the Isle of Wight around 125 million years ago, analysis suggests.
It belongs to a group of herbivorous dinosaurs known as iguanodontians, large, bulky creatures often described the “cows of the Cretaceous period ” by palaeontologists. Mr Lockwood said it is unclear why this hip bone, found at the base of the abdomen, was so big, but added: “It was probably for muscle attachments, which might mean its mode of locomotion was a bit different, or it could have been to support the stomach contents more effectively, or even have been involved in how the animal breathed, but all of these theories are somewhat speculative.”
He said: “Its lower jaw has a straight bottom edge, whereas most iguanodontians have a jaw that curves downwards.” However, because the dinosaur fossil was almost complete, it took Mr Lockwood and his colleagues several years before the specimen could be prepared for analysis.
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