Camelotia borealis Camelotia
"from Camelot"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Camelotia 1 m (3.3 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 1 m (3.3 ft)
- Period
- Late Triassic (237–201 Mya)
- Place
- United Kingdom
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Camelotia (meaning “from Camelot”) is a large-bodied sauropodomorph from the latest Triassic (Rhaetian) of southwest England. It is best known from a partial postcranial skeleton found in the Westbury Formation and named by Peter M. Galton in 1985. Subsequent work has generally placed Camelotia as a relatively derived sauropodomorph close to the origin of Sauropoda, although its exact position among early non-sauropod sauropodomorphs remains debated. It is sometimes placed in Melanorosauridae as a close relative of Melanorosaurus. With a body length and mass estimated at 8-10 and 3.8 tonnes, respectively, it is one of the largest sauropodomorphs known from the Triassic.
What we know
- Named by Galton, 1985.
- Body length estimated at about 1 m.
- Fossils found in United Kingdom.