Camptosaurus dispar kamptuh-SƆːRUHS
"bent"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Camptosaurus 6 m (19.7 ft) long
4 people holding hands
- Length
- 6 m (19.7 ft)
- Period
- Late Jurassic (156.3–146.8 Mya)
- Place
- North America · Europe · Spain
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
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.