Barilium

heavy ilium (heavy hip bone)

• barys · Greek · heavy
• ilium · Latin · hip bone

Barilium was named for the heavy, robust build of its hip bone. The name combines the Greek word for "heavy" with the Latin name of the hip bone, the ilium. The type species, B. dawsoni, was first described as a species of Iguanodon and honors Charles Dawson, the amateur collector who found the fossils.

Named by

Norman

Year named

2010

Period

Early Cretaceous

Stage

Valanginian

Found in

Wadhurst Clay Formation (Hastings Group, Wealden), East Sussex, England

Barilium is an iguanodontian ornithopod, a relative of Iguanodon. Its only species, B. dawsoni, was originally named Iguanodon dawsoni by Lydekker in 1888. Norman moved it to its own genus in 2010. The etymology of the root "bari-" is given with moderate confidence.