Wessex Formation
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The Wessex Formation is a fossil-rich English geological formation that dates from the Berriasian to Barremian stages of the Early Cretaceous. It forms part of the Wealden Group and underlies the youn
Exposure of the Wessex Formation west of Chilton Chine
Wessex Formation mudstones
Cast of a dinosaur footprint, Wessex Formation
Close up of L6 plant debris bed, showing charcoalised plant matter suspended in grey mudstone
Hypsilophodon
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Hypsilophodon is a neornithischian dinosaur genus from the Early Cretaceous period of England. It has traditionally been considered an early member of the group Ornithopoda, but recent research has pu
Wessex Formation
…red-green mudstone, with two separate horizons that have produced almost exclusively over a hundred complete and articulated skeletons of the dinosaur Hypsilophodon, sometimes even with preserved tail tendons. The bed is laterally extensive, being persistent for over a kilometre. A 2017 study suggested that the…
Hypsilophodon Brussels
Illustration of the complete Mantell-Bowerbank block. Mantell had received the bottom half, and Bowerbank the top.
Fox's skull, the holotype NHMUK PV R 197
Specimens NHMUK PV R 5829 and NHMUK PV R 5830 at the Natural History Museum, London