Hylaeosaurus
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Hylaeosaurus is a herbivorous ankylosaurian dinosaur that lived about 136 million years ago, in the late Valanginian stage of the early Cretaceous period of England. It was found in the Grinstead Clay
Illustration of the holotype in its matrix, 1868
Dermal spine
Crystal Palace model by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
Specimen referred to H. oweni
Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
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The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs are a series of sculptures of dinosaurs and other extinct animals in Crystal Palace Park, South London. They were commissioned in 1852 to accompany the Crystal Palace Exhi
Hylaeosaurus
…Not only has Hylaeosaurus received less public attention, despite being included in the life-sized models by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins placed in the Crystal Palace Park, it also never functioned as a "wastebasket taxon". Owen in 1840 developed a new hypothesis about the spikes; noting they were asymmetrical he…
Iguanodon sculpture in Crystal Palace Park
The famous banquet in the mould of the Crystal Palace Iguanodon, New Year's Eve, 1853
Iguanodon models in 1995, before restoration, showing previous countershaded paint scheme with white undersides
The dinosaurs during renovation in 2026