List of dinosaur finds in the United Kingdom

This is a partial list of dinosaur finds in the United Kingdom, arranged by genus alphabetically.

List of dinosaurs GenusPicturePeriodDiscovery locations and datesAcanthopholisCretaceous (late)Folkestone, Kent in Gault, Kent in 2000Lomax, D. & Tamura, N. (2014). "Dinosaurs of the British Isles", Siri Scientific Press pg. 367 AltispinaxCretaceous (early)Battle, East Sussex in 1856R. Owen. 1857. Monograph on the fossil Reptilia of the Wealden and Purbeck Formations. Part III. Dinosauria (Megalosaurus). [Wealden]. The Palaeontographical Society, London 9:1-26AnoplosaurusCretaceous (early)Cambridgeshire, no later than 1878AristosuchusCretaceous (early)Isle of Wight no later than 1876AsylosaurusTriassic (late)Avon Fissure Fill, Bristol in 1834Riley H and Stutchbury S (1836a) "A description of various remains of three distinct saurian animals discovered in the autumn of 1834, in the Magnesian Conglomerate on Durdham Down, near Bristol". Geological Society of London, Proceedings, 2 (45): 397-399.BariliumCretaceous (early)St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex between 1880 and 1888BaryonyxCretaceous (early)Smokejacks Brickworks, Waverley, Surrey in 1983W. H. E. Rivett. 1956. On some reptilian bones from the Weald Clay of Surrey. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 67(1540):110-111 Ewhurst Brickworks, Walliswood, Surrey in 1997A. J. Charig and A. C. Milner. 1997. Baryonyx walkeri, a fish-eating dinosaur from the Wealden of Surrey. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Geology Series 53(1):11-70

Redlands Bricks, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex in 1997

Ashdown Brickworks, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex in 2010P. Austen, D. Brockhurst, and K. Honeysett. 2010. Vertebrate fauna from Ashdown Brickworks, Bexhill, East Sussex. Wealden News (8):13-23BothriospondylusJurassic (middle)Wiltshire no later than 1875BrighstoneusCretaceous (early)Grange Chine, Isle of Wight in 1978CalamosaurusCretaceous (early)Isle of Wight no later than 1889Lydekker. R. (1889). On a coelurid dinosaur from the Wealden. Geological Magazine 6:119-121.CalamospondylusCretaceous (early)Isle of Wight in 1865,Anonymous (Fox, W.) (1866). "Another new Wealden reptile." The Athenaeum, 2014: 740. 1866 and 2014CallovosaurusJurassic (middle)Fletton, Cambridgeshire in 1889CamelotiaTriassic (late)Westbury-on-Severn, Glastonbury no later than 1985P. M. Galton. 1998. Saurischian dinosaurs from the Upper Triassic of England: Camelotia (Prosauropoda, Melanorosauridae) and Avalonianus (Theropoda, ?Carnosauria). Palaeontographica Abteilung A 250(4-6):155-172CamptosaurusJurassic (late)Chawley Brick Pits, Cumnor Hurst, Oxfordshire in 1880CardiodonJurassic (late)Bradford-upon-Avon, Wiltshire no later than 1844Owen, R. (1841). Odontography, Part II. Hippolyte Baillière. 655 p. Cirencester, Gloucestershire no later than 1890Lydekker, R. (1890). Suborder Sauropoda. In: Lydekker, R. (ed.). Catalogue of the Fossil Reptile and Amphibia of the British Museum (Natural History). Part 1. Taylor and Francis:London, p. 131-152.CeratosuchopsCretaceous (early)Chilton Chine, Isle of Wight between 2013 and 2017CetiosauriscusJurassic (mid)New Peterborough Brick Company, Fletton, Cambridgeshire in 1898A. S. Woodward and C. D. Sherborn. 1890. A Catalogue of British Fossil Vertebrata. Dulao & Company, LondonCetiosaurusJurassic (mid)19 sites including: Stonesfield, Oxfordshire in 1825J. Platt. 1758. An Account of the fossile Thigh-bone of a large Animal, dug up at Stonesfield, near Woodstock, in Oxfordshire. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 50(68):524-527

Staple-Hill, Wootton, Oxfordshire in 1841R. Owen. 1841. Description of a portion of the skeleton of the Cetiosaurus, a gigantic extinct saurian reptile occurring in the Oolitic formations of different portions of England. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 3, part 2(80):457-462

Sarsden, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire in 1888R. Lydekker. 1888. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History). Part I. Containing the Orders Ornithosauria, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, Squamata, Rhynchocephalia, and Proterosauria. British Museum (Natural History), LondonChondrosteosaurusCretaceous (early)Brighstone or Brook, Isle of Wight no later than 1876Owen, R. (1876). "Monograph on the fossil Reptilia of the Wealden and Purbeck Formations. Supplement 7. Crocodilia (Poikilopleuron) and Dinosauria? (Chondrosteosaurus)." Palaeontographical Society Monographs, 30: 1-7.CraterosaurusCretaceous (early)Potton, Bedfordshire no later than 1874CruxicheirosJurassic (middle)Little Compton, Warwickshire in 1960sCryptosaurusJurassic (late)Great Gransden, Cambridgeshire in CumnoriaJurassic (late)Chawley Brick Pits, Cumnor Hurst, Oxfordshire in 1879 DacentrurusJurassic (late)Swindon Brick and Tile Company, Swindon, Wiltshire in 1874R. Owen. 1875. Monographs on the fossil Reptilia of the Mesozoic formations. Part II. (Genera Bothriospondylus, Cetiosaurus, Omosaurus).. London: The Palaeontographical Society. 29:15-93DinodocusCretaceous (early)Hythe, Kent in 1840Owen R (1841) "Report on British Fossil Reptiles. Part II". Page 195. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 11th Meeting (1841).DracoraptorJurassic (early)Penarth, Wales in 2014DuriatitanJurassic (late)Sandsfoot, Weymouth, Dorset no later than 1874DuriavenatorJurassic (middle)Sherborne, Dorset in EchinodonCretaceous (early)Durdlestone Bay, Isle of Portland in EotyrannusCretaceous (early)Isle of Wight in 1995S. Hutt, D. Naish, and D. M. Martill, M. J. Barker, P. Newbery. 2001. A preliminary account of a new tyrannosauroid theropod from the Wessex Formation (Early Cretaceous) of southern England. Cretaceous Research 22:227-242EucamerotusCretaceous (early)Brighstone, Isle of Wight no later than 1872EucercosaurusCretaceous (early)Trumpington, Cambridgeshire no later than 1879EustreptospondylusJurassic (mid)Summertown Pit, Wolvercote, Oxfordshire in 1870J. W. Hulke. 1884. The anniversary address of the President. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 40:37-57GigantosaurusJurassic (late)Cottenham, Cambridgeshire in 1862Seeley, H.G., (1869), Index to the Fossil Remains of Aves, Ornithosauria, and Reptilia from the Secondary System of Strata, arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge. III. Geological Magazine 7 Ely, Cambridgeshire in 1862 Stretham, Cambridgeshire in 1862HaestasaurusCretaceous (early)Unknown location near Hastings, East Sussex in 1852Mantell G.A., 1852, "On the structure of the Iguanodon and on the fauna and flora of the Wealden Formation", Notice: Proceedings of the Royal Institute of Great Britain. 1852 1: 141–146HorshamosaurusCretaceous (early)Rudgwick Brickworks Company, Rudgwick, West Sussex in 1985Blows W.T. (1996) "A new species of Polacanthus (Ornithischia; Ankylosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous of Sussex, England". Geological Magazine, 133 (6): 671–682HylaeosaurusCretaceous (early)Tilgate Forest, Cuckfield, West Sussex in 1822G. A. Mantell. 1822. The Fossils of the South Downs; or Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex. London: Lupton Relfe. Stammerham Quarry, Horsham, West Sussex in 1826R. I. Murchison. 1826. Geological sketch of the north-western extremity of Sussex, and the adjoining parts of Hants and Surrey. Transactions of the Geological Society of London, series 2 2:97-107

Hakesbourne Pit, Rusper, West Sussex in 1842R. Owen. 1842. Report on British fossil reptiles, part II. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 11:60-204

Bolney, West Sussex in 1851G. A. Mantell. 1851. Petrifactions and Their Teachings; or, a Hand-Book to the Gallery of Organic Remains of the British Museum. London: Henry G. Bohn.

Ridgeway Hill, Weymouth, Dorset in 1860R. Damon. 1860. Handbook to the Geology of Weymouth and the Island of Portland. With Notes on the Natural History of the Coast and Neighbourhood. Edward Stanford, London

Brixton Bay, Isle of Wight in 1874J. W. Hulke. 1874. Note on a reptilian tibia and humerus (probably of Hylaeosaurus) from the Wealden Formation in the Isle of Wight. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 30:516-520

Ashdown Brickworks, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex in 2010HypselospinusCretaceous (early)Shornden, East Sussex in 1886HypsilophodonCretaceous (early)Cowleaze Chine, Isle of Wight in 1849R. Owen. 1855. Monograph on the fossil Reptilia of the Wealden and Purbeck Formations. Part II. Dinosauria (Iguanodon). [Wealden]. The Palaeontographical Society, London 1854:1-54 Isle of Wight in 1979E. Buffetaut and R. L. E. Ford. 1979. The crocodilian Bernissartia in the Wealden of the Isle of Wight . Palaeontology 22(4):905-912IguanodonCretaceous (early)Over 60 sites including: First discovery (tooth) at Tilgate Forest, Cuckfield, West Sussex in 1822IliosuchusJurassic (middle)Stonesfield, Oxfordshire in 1880Lomax, D. & Tamura, N. (2014). "Dinosaurs of the British Isles", Siri Scientific Press pg. 162 Istiorachis Cretaceous (early)Compton Bay, Isle of Wight in 2013IuticosaurusCretaceous (early)Brook, Isle of Wight no later than 1887Lydekker, R., (1887), "On certain dinosaurian vertebrae from the Cretaceous of India and the Isle of Wight", Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 43: 157–160JuratyrantJurassic (late)Dorset in 1984MantellisaurusCretaceous (early)Rockhill Quarry, Maidstone in 1834G. A. Mantell. 1834. Discovery of the bones of the Iguanodon in a quarry of Kentish Rag (a limestone belonging to the lower greensand formation) near Maidstone, Kent. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 17(33):200-201 Atherfield, Isle of Wight in 1917R. W. Hooley. 1917. On the integument of Iguanodon bernissartensis, Boulenger, and of Morosaurus becklesii, Mantell. Geological Magazine, series 6 4:148-150

Smokejacks Brickworks, Waverley, Surrey in 1956

Chilton Chine, Isle of Wight in 1976P. M. Galton. 1976. The dinosaur Vectisaurus valdensis (Ornithischia: Iguanodontidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of England. Journal of Paleontology 50(5):976-984

Grange Cline, Isle of Wight in 1989S. Hutt, K. Simmonds, and G. Hullman. 1989. Predatory dinosaurs from the Isle of Wight. Proceedings of the Isle of Wight Natural History and Archaeological Association 9:137-146MegalosaurusJurassic (mid)Over 30 sites including: Tooth at Caswell, Oxfordshire in the 17th century,Gunther, R.T. (1945). Early Science in Oxford: Life and Letters of Edward Lhuyd, volume 14. Author:Oxford. lower femur at Stonesfield, Oxfordshire in 1676 and over 100 further bones found there from at least 7 individuals by 1911MetriacanthosaurusJurassic (late)Jordan's Cliff, Weymouth, Dorset in 1871J. Phillips. 1871. Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames. Clarendon Press, OxfordNeovenatorCretaceous (early)Brighstone Bay, Isle of Wight in 1978NuthetesCretaceous (early)Durlston Bay, near Swanage, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset sometime before 1854 when it was described by Richard OwenOwenodonCretaceous (early)Durlston Bay, Dorset in 1860PantydracoJurassic (early)Pant-y-ffynnon Quarry, Bonvilston, Vale of Glamorgan in 1952K. A. Kermack. 1953. An ancestral crocodile from south Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 166(1–2):1-2PelorosaurusCretaceous (early)Cuckfield Quarry, West Sussex in 1822 Upware, Cambridgeshire in 1883W. Keeping. 1883. The Fossils and Palaeontological Affinities of the Neocomian Deposits of Upware and Brickhill (Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.PolacanthusCretaceous (early)12 sites (9 on Isle of Wight, 2 in Sussex, 1 in Essex) including: First discovery (partial skeleton) at Barnes High, Isle of Wight in 1865W. Fox. 1866. On a new Wealden saurian named Polacanthus. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Birmingham 1865:56