Comptonatus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Neornithischia |
Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
Family: | †Iguanodontidae |
Genus: | †Comptonatus Lockwood, Martill & Maidment, 2024 |
Species: | †C. chasei
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Binomial name | |
†Comptonatus chasei Lockwood, Martill & Maidment, 2024
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Comptonatus (meaning "the Compton thunderer") is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur from the early Cretaceous period. Its remains are known from the Wessex Formation in England. The type and only species is C. chasei.