Scientists have found evidence of what might have once been the largest terrestrial hunter in Europe, thanks to a fossil discovery on an island off the south coast of England.
Barker and his colleagues suspect their latest discovery on the southwest coast is its own distinct species, although it's hard to say with such limited remains.
The bones from the dinosaur's pelvis and tail indicate it was enormous, and the webbing on its vertebra are suggestive of theSpinosauruses . The rock the fossil was was buried in is all that remains of once sandy lagoon, in which the predator probably fished.The suspected Spinosaurus fossils found on the Isle of Wight.
For now, the authors have tentatively named the dinosaur the ''White Rock spinosaurid'' for its suspected clade and the sandstone it was found in. But whether or not the remains belong to an unknown spinosaurid or another impressively large theropod remains up for debate. "Because it's only known from fragments at the moment, we haven't given it a formal scientific name,""We hope that additional remains will turn up in time."
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