Pronunciation: AN-glo-puh-SIGH-don
Meaning: The English Poseidon
Author/s: Naish (2010)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: Isle of Wight, UK
Acta Ordinal: #
"Angloposeidon"
(The English Poseidon)Etymology
"Angloposeidon" is derived from the Latin "anglo" (of or pertaining to England or the English) and "Poseidon" (the Greek God). Poseidon was primarily Greek God of the sea with side-lines in horses amongst other things, but in his guise as Enisokhthon ("earth shaker") he was God of earthquakes, the notion being this critter's weight was so great that the ground shook with its every step.A species epithet has not been assigned.
Discovery
The remains of "Angloposeidon" were collected from the Wessex formation, on the Isle of White foreshore between
Chilton Chine and Sudmoor Point, England, by Mr.
Gavin Leng in 1992.When or if eventually official, the holotype (MIWG.7306) will be a single "collosal" vertebrae, broken into two pieces. Unless something better turns up.
