Sauropoda,
Brachiosauridae Riggs, 1904

'Pelorosaurus conybeari' Mantell, 1850

A long-necked sauropod dinosaur, Pelorosaurus was a browser, eating tough vegetation with its chisel-like teeth. It probably was only a visitor when it died, as there was insufficient vegetation to support a sauropod population.
(More info can be found at DinoWight Palaeoecology)

Description of Material

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The only definitely identified specimen was a large right humerus from Cuckfield, West Sussex, near where Gideon Mantell found the first remains of Iguanodon. This specimen was proportionally elongated, 0-shaped in cross-section and fairly straight, with proximally expanded ends and a well developed delto-pectoral crest. The only definite specimen from the island is a shaft of a left humerus found at Sandown, but this has no real defining features. Several assumed Pelorosaurus dorsal and caudal vertebrae from Brook bay were later referred to Iguanodon.

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