Pronunciation: koo-koo-fel-dee-uh
Meaning: of Cuckfield
Author/s: McDonald et al. (2010)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: West Sussex, England
Discovery Chart Position: #706
Kukufeldia tilgatensis
(Of Cuckfield, from Tilgate)Etymology
Kukufeldia is named for Kukufeld ("Cuckoo's Field"), an Olde English name for Cuckfield Village close to where its remains were found. The species epithet, tilgatensis, is derived from "Tilgate" (for Tilgate Forest, within the town of Crawley, West Sussex, England, where Gideon Mantell found many of his fossils) and the Latin "ensis" (from).
ZooBank registry: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:DE321034-5827-48C1-B227-09C239463D2D.
Discovery
The remains of Kukufeldia were discovered at a Whiteman's Green quarry in the Grinstead Clay Member of the Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation (Wealden Group), Cuckfield, West Sussex, England, by Captain Lambart Brickenden in 1848. The original teeth of Iguanodon anglicus were found in the same area.
The holotype (NHMUK 28660) is nearly complete right dentary (tooth-bearing bone of the lower jaw).
