The analysis suggests the plant-eating dinosaur, weighed as much as an African elephant and roamed the Isle of Wight around 125 million years ago.
A species of plant-eating dinosaur, that weighed as much as an African elephant, roamed the Isle of Wight around 125 million years ago, an analysis suggests.
“Evidence from fossil footprints found nearby shows it was likely to be a herding animal, so possibly large herds of these heavy dinosaurs may have been thundering around if spooked by predators on the floodplains over 120 million years ago.” When Comptonatus was first discovered, the specimen was thought to be a different type of dinosaur called Mantellisaurus, which are three-toed plant-eaters that lived in Britain more than 120 million years ago.
The work could help researchers understand how ecosystems recovered after an extinction event at the end of the Jurassic Period , she added.
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