Iguanodon for Fossil Friday

#Fossil Friday

Over the years I have collected lots of fossils from all over the globe. I have started posting photos of these to my facebook page for #FossilFriday. I'm going to post them here on the blog too.

So far I've been focusing on fossils I have found on the Isle of Wight, UK. This is the best place in Europe to find dinosaur fossils.

So here's this week's image:

Iguanodon. The best dinosaur, or your money back.

This is the nicest Iguanodon tooth that I have found, which is not saying much really. The tooth is from the maxilla (upper jaw) and is nicely preserved as it is unworn, i.e. it had not yet been used by the dinosaur to chew with.

I suppose technically I should say that this is <probably> from Mantellisaurus, which is the new name for Iguanodon atherfieldensis. I'm not a big fan of taxonomists constantly renaming taxa. Collected from the Wessex Fm (Barremian; Lower Cretaceous, ~130 Ma), Brighstone, Isle of Wight, UK.

If you would like to see previous #FossilFriday posts on my Facebook page, head to the album here.