Overview

• The peer-reviewed description appears in Papers in Palaeontology from a team led by Jeremy Lockwood of the Natural History Museum in London.
• Multiple bones recovered in the island’s western region underpin the diagnosis of the new species.
• The dinosaur lived more than 120 million years ago and is estimated at about two meters tall and roughly one tonne.
• The study compares the feature with structures in Spinosaurus, Dimetrodon and modern Hydrosaurus lizards.
• The species name honors British record-setting sailor Ellen MacArthur.