This is a partial list of dinosaurs found in the United Kingdom, arranged alphabetically.[1][2]

Genus Picture Period Discovery locations and dates
Baryonyx Cretaceous (early) Smokejacks Brickworks, Waverley, Surrey in 1983[3]

Ewhurst Brickworks, Walliswood, Surrey in 1997[4]

Redlands Bricks, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex in 1997[4]

Ashdown Brickworks, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex in 2010[5]

Becklespinax Cretaceous (early) Battle, East Sussex in 1856[6]
Camptosaurus Jurassic (late) Chawley Brick Pits, Cumnor Hurst, Oxfordshire in 1880[7]
Cetiosauriscus Jurassic (mid) New Peterborough Brick Company, Fletton, Cambridgeshire in 1898[8]
Cetiosaurus Jurassic (mid) 19 sites including:

Stonesfield, Oxfordshire in 1825[9]

Staple-Hill, Wootton, Oxfordshire in 1841[10]

Sarsden, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire in 1888[11]

Dacentrurus Jurassic (late) Swindon Brick and Tile Company, Swindon, Wiltshire in 1874[12]
Eotyrannus Cretaceous (early) Isle of Wight in 1995[13]
Eustreptospondylus Jurassic (mid) Summertown Pit, Wolvercote, Oxfordshire in 1870[14]
Hylaeosaurus Cretaceous (early) Tilgate Forest, Cuckfield, West Sussex in 1822[15]

Stammerham Quarry, Horsham, West Sussex in 1826[16]

Hakesbourne Pit, Rusper, West Sussex in 1842[17]

Bolney, West Sussex in 1851[18]

Ridgeway Hill, Weymouth, Dorset in 1860[19]

Brixton Bay, Isle of Wight in 1874[20]

Ashdown Brickworks, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex in 2010[21]

Hypsilophodon Cretaceous (early) Cowleaze Chine, Isle of Wight in 1849[22]

Isle of Wight in 1979[23]

Ichthyosaur Triassic to Cretaceous Over 100 sites including:

First complete skull at Lyme Regis, Dorset in 1811[24]

Complete skeleton at Rutland Water, Rutland in 2021[25]

Iguanodon Cretaceous (early) Over 60 sites including:

First discovery (tooth) at Tilgate Forest, Cuckfield, West Sussex in 1822[15]

Mantellisaurus Cretaceous (early) Rockhill Quarry, Maidstone in 1834[26]

Atherfield, Isle of Wight in 1917[27]

Smokejacks Brickworks, Waverley, Surrey in 1956[28]

Chilton Chine, Isle of Wight in 1976[29]

Grange Cline, Isle of Wight in 1989[30]

Megalosaurus Jurassic (mid) Over 30 sites including:

Lower femur at Stonesfield, Oxfordshire in 1676[31] and over 100 further bones there from at least 7 individuals by 1911[32]

Metriacanthosaurus Jurassic (late) Jordan's Cliff, Weymouth, Dorset in 1871[33]
Neovenator Cretaceous (early) Brighstone Bay, Isle of Wight in 1978[34]
Pantydraco Jurassic (early) Pant-y-ffynnon Quarry, Bonvilston, Vale of Glamorgan in 1952[35]
Pelorosaurus Cretaceous (early) Cuckfield Quarry, West Sussex in 1822[36]

Upware, Cambridgeshire in 1883[37]

Polacanthus Cretaceous (early) 12 sites (9 on Isle of Wight, 2 in Sussex, 1 in Essex) including:

First discovery (partial skeleton) at Barnes High, Isle of Wight in 1865[38]

Another partial skeleton at Barnes High in 1979[39]

Proceratosaurus Jurassic (mid) Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire in 1910[40]
Saltopus Triassic (late) Partial skeleton at Lossiemouth Quarries, Elgin, Moray in 1867[41]
Sarcosaurus Jurassic (early) Partial skeleton at Barrow-on-Soar, Leicestershire in 1921[42]

Wilmcote, Warwickshire in 1908[43] and in 2004[44]

Scelidosaurus Jurassic (early) Partial skeletons at Charmouth, Lyme Regis, Dorset in 1850s[45], in 1955[46] and in 1985[47]

Seatown, Dorset in 1987[48]

Thecodontosaurus Triassic (late) Durdham Down, Bristol in 1834[49]

Microlestes Quarry, Frome, Somerset in 1871[50]

Holwell, Frome, Somerset in 1889[51]

Ruthin Quarry, Glamorgan in 1957[52]

Tytherington Quarry, Gloucestershire in 1970s[53]

Valdosaurus Cretaceous (early) Tilgate Forest, Cuckfield, West Sussex in 1822[15]

Hakesbourne Pit, Rusper, West Sussex in 1842[17]

Cowleaze Chine, Isle of Wight in 1855[22]

Heathfield, East Sussex in 1975[54]

Isle of Wight in 2001[55]

Horsham, West Sussex in 2009[56]

Langhurstwood Quarry, Warnham, West Sussex in 2011[57]

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