Camptosaurus
Camptosaurus dispar
Pronounced: Camp - toe - Sore - us
Diet: Herbivore (Plant-Eater)
Name Means: "Flexible Lizard"
Length: 22 feet (7 m)
Height: 7 feet (2 m)
Weight: 1 ton (900 kilos)
Time: Jurassic/Cretaceous:152-140 MYA
Fossil remains for this Dinosaur have been found in North
America, England
First discovered in 1877, there have been more than 20 skulls and 12
skeletons found to date of this dinosaur. This leads scientists to think
of it as a fairly common plant eater of the last part of the Jurassic
and the first part of the Cretaceous. It belongs to the same family as
Iguanodon although it was an earlier dinosaur.
There is ongoing debate regarding the various specimens currently
attributed to the genus Camptosaurus. Some scientists believe that a
number of the species should be renamed after the type specimen and that
their differences are simply individual variation. There have been a
number of dinosaurs that were originally classified as Camptosaurus,
including an Allosaurus species. |
