BBC Radio Surrey<\/a> there was a history of finding dinosaur remains where the father-of-two worked. <\/p>\n“He was quite fascinated by this,” she said. <\/p>\n
Each time a layer of clay was removed from the quarry, Will checked if there was anything that looked like dinosaur fossils, Rachel added. <\/p>\n
Rachel said the dinosaur being named after Will – who worked his way up the ranks to become manager – was a “huge” honour.<\/p>\n
“It’s very exciting,” she told the BBC. “It’s a great legacy for my husband to be remembered by.<\/p>\n
“[We’re] absolutely thrilled.” <\/p>\n
The remains at the Ewhurst works belong to a member of the iguanodontians \u2013 a group of dinosaurs known for their thumb spikes, according to the Natural History Museum.<\/p>\n
Historically, it added that iguanodontians found in southern England were considered to be either Iguanodon or its smaller relative, mantellisaurus. <\/p>\n
However, a detailed redescription of the latter by Natural History Museum scientists in 2023 has allowed key differences to be identified.<\/p>\n
This has led to several newly named iguanodontians in recent years, including brighstoneus, comptonatus, the sail-backed istiorachis and now paludohadros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new species and genus of dinosaur has been named after a Surrey dad. Paludohadros proudlovii – an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-815359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-gb","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}