Comptonatus
| Comptonatus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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| Speculative life reconstruction | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Ornithopoda |
| Genus: | †Comptonatus Lockwood, Martill & Maidment, 2024 |
| Species: | †C. chasei
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| Binomial name | |
| †Comptonatus chasei Lockwood, Martill & Maidment, 2024
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Comptonatus (meaning "the Compton thunderer") is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur from the early Cretaceous period. Its remains are known from the Wessex Formation in England. The type and only species is C. chasei.