... we're actually a species of dinosaur . Barilium is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur which was first described as a species of Iguanodon ( I. dawsoni ) by Richard Lydekker in 1888, the specific epithet honouring the discoverer Charles Dawson. In 2010 it was reclassified as a separate genus by David Norman. The generic name Barilium is derived from Greek barys , "heavy", and Latin ilium. Later in 2010, Kenneth Carpenter and Yusuke Ishida independently assigned it to the new genus Torilion , which is thus a junior objective synonym of Barilium . It is known from two partial skeletons found near St Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex England from the middle Valanginian Lower Cretaceous Wadhurst Clay. Lydekker based the species on the syntype series BMNH R798, 798a, 803-805, 806, 798b, 802, 802a and 799-801. Norman chose NHMUK R 798 and R802, a dorsal vertebra and a left ilium, as the lectotype. A contemporary of Hypselospinus (also once thought to be a species of Igua...