#Know the new coordinates #Europe's largest carnivorous dragon appears in the UK?
Recent fossils found on the British Isle of Wight may represent the largest known carnivorous dinosaur in Europe, the White Rock spinosaurid. In fact, "White Stone Spinosaurus" is only a nickname, and the informal scientific name, its fossil was found by the famous British fossil hunter Nick Chase, found that the formation is the Vectis Formation, the fossil includes the pelvic bone and tail vertebrae and other parts, but it is very broken, so it can not be officially determined.
Although the fossils are fragmented, some of the dimensions it includes are unusually large, especially the length of the foresacral vertebrae, so paleontologists refer to the fish-hunting dragons that are closely related to it, and speculate from the anterior sacral vertebrae that the body length of " Silvicus " may be between 13.4 and 16.6 meters, if this data is accurate, then " Silvigalosaurus " will become the longest and largest known carnivorous dinosaur in Europe, and will also be one of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs in the world. At the same time, most reports on the Internet say that the body length of The white stone spinosaurus is more than 10 meters.
It lived in the Early Cretaceous period 125 million years ago, making it the youngest known species in the family Astosaurus, while the Victis formation that found its fossils has always been rare, and the discovery of fossils is also valuable for the species richness of this formation.
In addition to the possible massive size, the discovery of fossils of " Schinospercus " ) further supports the suggestions of some paleontologists that the spinosaurus family may have originated in western Europe, then spread outward and became more diverse! Just this past 2021, also on the Isle of Wight in the Uk, paleontologists named two dinosaurs of the family Spinosaurus, Ceratosuchops inferodios and Riparovenator milnerae.
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论文：Chris Barker et al. 2022. A European giant: a large spinosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Vectis Formation (Wealden Group, Early Cretaceous). PeerJ 10: e13543; doi: 10.7717/peerj.13543
