Kukufeldia
koo-koo-FELD-ee-ah</pronunciation> <parameter name="notes">An iguanodontian ornithopod known from a partial lower jaw. It was erected for material previously assigned to Iguanodon tilgatensis. Some re /ˌkuːkuːˈfɛldiːə/
Accepted genus
Cuckfield (place name)
- Kukufeld · Old English (old spelling of Cuckfield) · Cuckfield, the town in Sussex, England
- -ia · Latin · place or region suffix
Kukufeldia is named after Cuckfield, the town in West Sussex, England, near where the fossil was found. "Kukufeld" is an old form of the town's name, and the Latinised ending "-ia" marks it as a place name. The type species, K. tilgatensis, was originally described as a species of Iguanodon (I. tilgatensis) from the Tilgate Forest area.
- Named by
- McDonald, Barrett and Chapman
- Year named
- 2010
- Period
- Early Cretaceous
- Stage
- Valanginian
- Found in
- Tunbridge Wells Sandstone Formation (Hastings Group), near Cuckfield, West Sussex, England