Describer

Marsh, 1894

Time

Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian Tithonian

Classification

Ornithischia Ornithopoda Iguanodontia Camptosauridae

Diet

Herbivore

Fossilsite

Morrison Formation, Como Bluff Quarry, 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)

\\\"dwarf flexible lizard\\\" [juvenile]

Holotype

USNM 2210 described by O.C. Marsh in 1894 in the American Journal of Science, volume 48, page 88. Collected by W. Reed in 1882 at Quarry 13, Como Bluff, Wyoming, which is in the Morrison Formation. The material is a postcranial skeleton of a very small animal. The species Camptosaurus nanus is now considered to be a very young growth stage (\\\"baby\\\") of Camptosaurus dispar.