Research has revealed that several groups of meat-eating dinosaur stalked the Bexhill-on-Sea region of coastal East Sussex 135 million years ago.
Research led by the University of Southampton has revealed that several groups of meat-eating dinosaur stalked the Bexhill-on-Sea region of coastal East Sussex 135 million years ago."Meat-eating dinosaurs -- properly called theropods -- are rare in the Cretaceous sediments of southern England," said Dr Chris Barker, visiting researcher at the University of Southampton and lead author of the research.
"Rigorous methods exist that can help identify teeth with high accuracy. Our results suggest the presence of spinosaurs, mid-sized tyrannosaurs and tiny dromaeosaurs --The discovery of tyrannosaurs is particularly notable, since the group hasn't previously been identified in sediments of this age and region. These tyrannosaurs would have been around a third of the size of their famous cousin, and likely hunted small dinosaurs and other reptiles in their floodplain habitat.
"As a child I was fascinated by dinosaurs and never thought how close they could be," says Mr Brockhurst."Many years later I started work at Ashdown and began looking for fossils. I'm happy with tiny fish scales or huge thigh bones, although the preservation of the dinosaur teeth really stands out for me.
Theropod dinosaur diversity of the lower English Wealden: analysis of a tooth‐based fauna from the Wadhurst Clay Formation via phylogenetic, discriminant and machine learning methodsPalaeontologists studying a British dinosaur tooth have concluded that several distinct groups of spinosaurs -- dinosaurs with fearsome crocodile-like skulls -- inhabited southern England over 100 ...
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