Camptosaurus dispar kamptuh-SƆːRUHS
"bent"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Camptosaurus 6 m (19.7 ft) long
as long as 4 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 6 m (19.7 ft)
- Period
- Late Jurassic (156.3–146.8 Mya)
- Place
- North America · Europe · Spain
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Camptosaurus ( ) is an extinct genus of plant-eating, beaked ornithischian dinosaurs of the Late Jurassic period of western North America and possibly also Europe. The name means ‘flexible lizard’ (Greek καμπτος (kamptos) meaning ‘bent’ and σαυρος (sauros) meaning ‘lizard’).
What we know
- Named by Marsh, 1885.
- Body length estimated at about 6 m.
- Fossils found in North America and Europe.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Camptosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.