Charig A J, Milner A C
Nature. 1986;324(6095):359-61. doi: 10.1038/324359a0.
An extremely large claw bone, some 30 cm long, was found in Wealden (Lower Cretaceous) deposits in a Surrey claypit in January 1983. This led to the discovery the following month of the well-preserved skeleton of a new large theropod dinosaur. Only one other theropod specimen comprising more than a few bones had ever been found in Britain, and that discovery was more than a century ago. Indeed, no large theropod, reasonably complete, had previously been discovered in Lower Cretaceous rocks anywhere in the world. Our study so far suggests that the Surrey dinosaur was a typical large theropod in certain respects, resembling, for example Allosaurus. In several other respects, however, it differs sufficiently from all known dinosaurs to merit designation as the representative of a new species, genus and family.
1983年1月，在萨里郡一个黏土矿坑的威尔德（下白垩统）沉积物中发现了一块极其巨大的爪骨，约30厘米长。这使得次月发现了一具保存完好的新型大型兽脚亚目恐龙骨架。在英国，此前仅发现过一个包含几块以上骨头的兽脚亚目标本，而且那是一个多世纪以前的事了。事实上，此前在世界任何地方的下白垩统岩石中都未曾发现过相当完整的大型兽脚亚目恐龙。我们目前的研究表明，萨里郡的这种恐龙在某些方面是典型的大型兽脚亚目恐龙，例如与异特龙相似。然而，在其他几个方面，它与所有已知恐龙有足够大的差异，因而值得被认定为一个新物种、新属和新科的代表。
