The newly unearthed fossil is a cousin to the JurassicPark favorite — the spinosaurus.
on the Isle of Wight in the U.K. by a University of Southampton research team is in the family of another Jurassic Park favorite — the spinosaurids. One of the most famous of these dinosaurs is theResearchers dubbed the new specimen as the "White Rock spinosaurid" — after the geological layer it was found in, but they haven't given a scientific name yet. Paleontologists are waiting to find more remains before giving it a proper name.
“Unusually, this specimen eroded out of the Vectis Formation, which is notoriously poor in dinosaur fossils”, says co-author Neil Gostling, a professor of evolution and palaeobiology at the University of Southampton, in a press release. “It’s likely to be the youngest spinosaur material yet known from the U.K."
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