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.