Camarillasaurus cirugedae Sánchez-Hernández and Benton 2014 (tetanuran theropod)

Reptilia - Saurischia - Spinosauridae

Full reference: B. Sánchez-Hernández and M. J. Benton. 2014. Filling the ceratosaur gap: a new ceratosaurian theropod from the Early Cretaceous of Spain. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 59(3):581-600

Belongs to Camarillasaurus according to A. Santos-Cubedo et al. 2023

See also Dal Sasso et al. 2018, Malafaia et al. 2020, Mateus and Estraviz-López 2022, Navarro-Lorbés et al. 2021, Sánchez-Hernández and Benton 2014 and Torices et al. 2015

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MPG-KPC1-46, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Fuente Amar outcrop, near Camarillas village, which is in a Barremian fluvial claystone/limestone in the Camarillas Formation of Spain.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Fuente Amar outcrop, near Camarillas village

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