New spinosaurids from the Wessex Formation (Early Cretaceous, UK) and the European origins of Spinosauridae

Accepted/In Press date: 26 August 2021

Published date: 29 September 2021

Additional Information: Funding Information: We thank Martin Munt and Alex Peaker (Dinosaur Isle Museum, Sandown) for access to specimens and help with the stratigraphic relationship of the fossils; Gary Blackwell, Martin New, Eleanor Foxwell (Dinosaur Isle Museum) and Shaun Smith for preparation of the material; Martin Munt, Gary Blackwell and Alex Peaker, as well as volunteers Eleanor Foxwell, Callum Atkinson, Steve Hutt and Trudie Wilson, who helped excavate the site in 2017; Tim Medland, Andrew Cocks, Jon and Lou Moody, and Shaun Smith for donating their finds to the museum; Kai Bailey for finding and preparing remains attributable to Ceratosuchops; Replicate 3D for providing printed models; Susie Maidment (Natural History Museum, London) for providing access to the Baryonyx type specimen; Serjoscha Evers (University of Fribourg), Simone Maganuco (Natural History Museum of Milan) and Marco Schade (University of Greifswald) for providing additional imagery and discussion of Suchomimus, spinosaurid material from the Kem Kem beds, and Irritator respectively; Christophe Hendrickx for comments regarding spinosaurid dental variation, and John Radley for discussions regarding Wealden geology. We also thank Dan Folkes (University of Bristol), Scott Hartman (University of Wisconsin-Maddison) and Alex Vieira for the skeletals and silhouettes used in the figures. The program TNT was made available thanks to the Willi Hennig Society. We would like to extend out gratitude to the editorial team at Scientific Reports, and also to the reviewers for the thorough comments that helped improve this manuscript. This study was funded by the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) (Grant No. 2283360) and Institute for Life Sciences (University of Southampton). The acquisition of material was supported by the Friends of Dinosaur Isle (Charity No. 1170688). Publisher Copyright: © 2021, The Author(s).

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Local EPrints ID: 451633

URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/451633

DOI: doi:10.1038/s41598-021-97870-8

ISSN: 2045-2322

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ORCID for Philipp Schneider: orcid.org/0000-0001-7499-3576

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