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Today's new drawing is of a newly discovered dinosaur and
a more well-known Pterosaur.
Brightstoneus and Radiodactylus
It has recently been discovered that many of the dinosaur species identified as Iguanodon were actually many different species. This is a drawing of one of those. It is Brightstoneus. It was found in a museum after being dug up many years ago in 1978. It was then identified as an Iguanodon but it has now been identified as a specific different species. It was found on the Isle of Wight near England.
Jeremy Lockwood was a doctoral student researching diversity in Iguanodons. In the basement of Dinosaur Isle Museum he found the bones that had not been looked at for years. He noticed that it had a rounded snout that was different from Iguanodon. The new species was given the Genus name of Brightstoneus, after the town near the original dig site. The species name is simmondsi for Keith Simmonds, the amateur paleontologist who first found the fossils. So the correct scientific name is Brightstoneus simmondsi.
This dinosaur was around 26 feet or 8 meters long. It weighed around 2000 lbs or 900 kg. It had a rounded beak-like mouth and many teeth for chewing tough plants like pine needles and ferns. At the time grass had not yet evolved nor had flowering plants. Or at least those two types of plants were not widely available for being a primary food source.
The Pterosaur is Radiodactylus. It lived in the early Cretaceous Period, like Brightstoneus. Radiodactylus was a smaller Pterosaur with a wingspan of only 5 meters or 1.5 meters wide.
I want to mention that I drew the volcano because they are fun to color. But actually, the LATE Cretaceous is when there was a great uptake in volcanic activity.
NOTE: This drawing is found, in printable form, by clicking on the Paleontology button and then scrolling to the bottom of the Mesozoic section. Then click on this title and you'll get the printable drawing to print and color.
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