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The animal portrayed here is the one usually referred to as Iguanodon, the smallish, gracile European iguanodont Mantellisaurus atherfieldensis. Differing starkly in overall proportions, gross anatomy, stance, countless details and even size (just half as long as real I. bernissartensis), I was impressed how it could take so much time until someone - Greg Paul, in this case - happened to split it off. Given the flood of "new" species acknowledged from dubious Wealden iguanodont remains, it's in good company of Barilium, Hypselospinus, Kukufeldia and the like.

While I had my beefs with GSP's 2008 paper (especially his outlandish view of phylogeny), the descriptive work and of course the reconstructions were superb as expected. Little surprise that I used his skull reconstruction of Mantellisaurus for this picture.

Description
The animal portrayed here is the one usually referred to as Iguanodon, the smallish, gracile European iguanodont Mantellisaurus atherfieldensis. Differing starkly in overall proportions, gross anatomy, stance, countless details and even size (just half as long as real I. bernissartensis), I was impressed how it could take so much time until someone - Greg Paul, in this case - happened to split it off. Given the flood of "new" species acknowledged from dubious Wealden iguanodont remains, it's in good company of Barilium, Hypselospinus, Kukufeldia and the like.

While I had my beefs with GSP's 2008 paper (especially his outlandish view of phylogeny), the descriptive work and of course the reconstructions were superb as expected. Little surprise that I used his skull reconstruction of Mantellisaurus for this picture.