Dinosaurs A to Z
Dinosauria

Camelotia borealis

"from Camelot"

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Camelotia 1 m (3.3 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
Length
1 m (3.3 ft)
Period
Late Triassic (237–201 Mya)
Place
United Kingdom
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.

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.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Camelotia — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.