[D] Camptosaurus browni
Describer
Gilmore, 1909
Time
Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian Tithonian
Classification
Ornithischia Ornithopoda Iguanodontia Camptosauridae
Diet
Herbivore
Fossilsite
Morrison Formation, Como Bluff Quarry, Albany County, Wyoming, US
Fall Under
Camptosaurus
Info
Camptosaurus (Marsh, 1885) = Brachyrophus (Cope, 1878) Cumnoria (Seeley, 1888) Symphyrophus (Cope, 1878)
Camptosaurus > Camptosaurus dispar (Marsh, 1879) = Camptonotus dispar (Marsh, 1879) > Brachyrophus altarkansanus (Cope, 1878) Symphyrophus musculosus (Cope, 1878) Camptosaurus medius (Marsh, 1894) Camptosaurus nanus (Marsh, 1894) Camptosaurus browni (Gilmore, 1909) Camptosaurus prestwichii (Hulke, 1880) = Iguanodon prestwichii (Hulke, 1880)
Discovered in 1885 by Fred Brown at the famous Como Bluff Quarry 13 in Albany County, Wyoming. Named in honor of Fred Brown, by C.W. Gilmore in the Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, Volume 36, pages 231-250, in 1909. The type material consist of partial postcranial material.
The species Camptosaurus browni is now considered to be an older growth stage of the species Camptosaurus dispar.