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Horshamosaurus is a genus of herbivorous ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous of what is now England. The type species is Horshamosaurus rudgwickensis.

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Horshamosaurus is a genus of herbivorous ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous of what is now England. The type species is Horshamosaurus rudgwickensis.

==Discovery== In 1985, at the marl quarry of the Rudgwick Brickworks Company near Rudgwick in West Sussex, fossils were dug up of dinosaurs by John Underhill. These were secured by two volunteers of the Horsham Museum: Morris Zdzalek and Sylvia Standing. After 1988, the finds were exhibited in the museum as Iguanodon bones. Subsequently, neurologist William T. Blows, an amateur paleontologist who already had extensively published on the subject of armoured dinosaurs, determined that the bones were not iguanodontian but instead represented ankylosaurian remains.

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