Camptosaurus dispar Marsh 1879 (ornithopod)

Reptilia - Ornithischia

Alternative combinations: Camptonotus dispar, Comptonotus dispar

Synonyms: Brachyrophus altarkansanus Cope 1878, Camptosaurus browni Gilmore 1909, Camptosaurus medius Marsh 1894, Camptosaurus nanus Marsh 1894, Symphyrophus musculosus Cope 1878

Full reference: O. C. Marsh. 1879. Notice of new Jurassic reptiles. American Journal of Science and Arts 18:501-505

Belongs to Camptosaurus according to K. Carpenter and P. M. Galton 2018

See also Avinoff 1940, Barrett and Maidment 2011, Bartholomai and Molnar 1981, Becerra et al. 2016, Bell et al. 2019, Bell et al. 2018, Boulenger 1881, Brill and Carpenter 2007, Buchholz 2002, Butler et al. 2008, Carpenter and Wilson 2008, Casanovas et al. 1999, Castanera et al. 2020, Chure et al. 2006, Chure et al. 1994, Cope 1878, Cope 1878, Diedrich 2011, Dieudonné et al. 2020, Dieudonné et al. 2016, Dieudonné et al. 2016, Frances and Sanz 1989, Fuentes Vidarte et al. 2016, Galton 1980, Galton 1982, Galton 2007, Galton 2009, Galton and Powell 1980, Gegenbaur 1898, Gierlinski et al. 2009, Gilmore 1909, Gilmore 1925, Godefroit et al. 1998, Godefroit et al. 2017, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Herne et al. 2019, Herne et al. 2018, Hübner and Rauhut 2007, Ibiricu et al. 2014, Jurcsak and Popa 1979, Kay 1951, Knight 1900, Kuhn 1964, Lockley and Wright 2001, Lull 1924, Madsen and Stokes 1978, Madzia et al. 2018, Mansel-Pleydell 1902, Marsh 1879, Marsh 1885, Marsh 1894, Marsh 1896, Marsh 1897, Mateus 2006, McDonald 2011, McDonald 2012, McDonald et al. 2010, McDonald et al. 2010, McDonald et al. 2014, McDonald et al. 2010, McGinnis 1982, McIntosh 1981, Mook 1916, Nopcsa 1901, Nopcsa 1902, Norman 2004, Norman and Weishampel 1990, Osborn and Mook 1919, Osborn and Mook 1919, Párraga and Prieto-Márquez 2019, Pascual-Arribas et al. 2009, Pereda Suberbiola et al. 2006, Perrier 1928, Rotatori et al. 2022, Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 2007, Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 2008, Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 2010, Sánchez-Fenollosa et al. 2021, Sánchez-Fenollosa et al. 2022, Sauvage 1880, Smith 1997, Steel 1970, Stokes 1949, Taquet 1975, Tatarinov 1964, Thulborn 1990, Untermann and Untermann 1954, Walcott 1900, Wang et al. 2011, Weishampel and Bjork 1989, Weishampel et al. 1991, Weishampel and Heinrich 1992, Weishampel and Weishampel 1983, Winkler 1893, Wright 1999, Young 1944, Young 1948, Zheng et al. 2013 and Zittel 1890

Sister taxon: Camptosaurus aphanoecetes

Type specimens:

  • Camptosaurus dispar: YPM 1877, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Quarry 13, Como Bluff (YPM), which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian crevasse splay sandstone/claystone in the Morrison Formation of Wyoming.
  • Brachyrophus altarkansanus:
  • Camptosaurus browni: USNM 4282. Its type locality is Quarry 13, Como Bluff (YPM), which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian crevasse splay sandstone/claystone in the Morrison Formation of Wyoming.
  • Camptosaurus medius: YPM 1885, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Quarry 13, Como Bluff (YPM), which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian crevasse splay sandstone/claystone in the Morrison Formation of Wyoming.
  • Camptosaurus nanus: U.S.N.M. Cat. No. 2210, a partial skeleton (postcranial skeleton including right fore limb and both hind limbs). Its type locality is Quarry 13, Como Bluff (YPM), which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian crevasse splay sandstone/claystone in the Morrison Formation of Wyoming.
  • Symphyrophus musculosus: Its type locality is Cope Quarry IV, Cope's Nipple, which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian dry floodplain horizon in the Morrison Formation of Colorado.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution:

• Jurassic of United States (6: Colorado, Oklahoma, Utah, Wyoming collections)

Total: 6 collections including 9 occurrences

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