A Guide to the Dinosaurs of Colorado
On Dinosaur Classification
On Scientific Names
The Basics of Taxonomy
An Introduction to Cladistcs
Taxonomy of the Dinosaurs of Colorado
Cladogram of the Dinosaurs of Colorado
About the Dinosaurs of Colorado
Geological
Time Chart
    

Genus Camptosaurus

Includes material originally referred to: Brachyrophus, Cumnoria, Symphyrophus, Camptonotus.

Taxonomy: Recognized Species
Class Dinosauria
  Subclass Ornithischia
    Order Ornithopoda
      Family Camptosauridae
C. dispar Marsh, 1885
  Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Oklahoma
C. amplus Marsh, 1879
  Wyoming
C. prestwichii Hulke, 1880
  Oxfordshire, England
(?) C. depressus Gilmore, 1909
  Wyoming, South Dakota
Species in Colorado: Camptosaurus dispar
Size: Where found:
20 feet
6 meters		 Morrison Formation of Western United States
Kimmeridge Clay, England
Period: Age:
Late Jurassic Kimmeridgian - Tithonian
  144 to 156 Ma.
Material Found
C. dispar
25 to 30 disarticulated skull elements, some with postcrania, ~10 partial articulated skeletons.
C. amplus
Foot
C. prestwichii
Fragmentary skull and skeleton
(?) C. depressus
Ilia and vertebrae

Information compiled by Donald L. Blanchard

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