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A Cretaceous calamity? The Hypsilophodon Bed of the Isle of Wight, southern England
Author(s) -
Coram Robert A.,
Radley Jonathan D.,
Martill David M.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
geology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.188
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1365-2451
pISSN - 0266-6979
DOI - 10.1111/gto.12182
Subject(s) - wight , cretaceous , geology , paleontology , demise , preliminary report , archaeology , geography , law , medical physics , physics , political science
Complete or near‐complete skeletons of the herbivorous dinosaur Hypsilophodon foxii occur frequently in a metre‐thick band of mudstone and sandstone in the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight. The reasons for this accumulation have been the subject of some debate. This article examines new sedimentological clues that provide a plausible explanation for these dinosaurs’ demise.