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Valdosaurus canaliculatus
Taxonomy
Dryosaurus canaliculatus was named by Galton (1975). Its type specimen is BMNH R184, 185, a limb element (femur), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Hypsilophodon Bed, Cowleaze Chine, which is in a Barremian terrestrial marl/claystone in the Wessex Formation of the United Kingdom.
It was synonymized subjectively with Camptosaurus valdensis by Barrett (1996); it was recombined as Valdosaurus canaliculatus by Galton (1977), Galton (1977), Jurcsak and Popa (1979), Molnar (1980), Jurcsák (1982), Galton and Taquet (1982), Weishampel and Weishampel (1983), Blows (1983), Sanz et al. (1987), Hutt et al. (1989), Sues and Norman (1990), Grigorescu (1992), Norman (1997), Ryan (1997), Tallodi Posmosanu and Popa (1997), Blows (1998), Naish and Martill (2001), Ruiz-Omeñaca and Canudo (2003), Norman (2004), Stanford et al. (2004), Galton and Molnar (2005), Pereda Suberbiola et al. (2006), Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. (2007), Naish and Martill (2008), Butler et al. (2008), Galton (2009), McDonald et al. (2010), McDonald et al. (2012), Zheng et al. (2013), Verdú et al. (2014), Barrett (2016), Hübner (2016), Herne et al. (2018), Madzia et al. (2018), Herne et al. (2019), Cruzado-Caballero et al. (2019), Dieudonné et al. (2020), Rotatori et al. (2022).
It was synonymized subjectively with Camptosaurus valdensis by Barrett (1996); it was recombined as Valdosaurus canaliculatus by Galton (1977), Galton (1977), Jurcsak and Popa (1979), Molnar (1980), Jurcsák (1982), Galton and Taquet (1982), Weishampel and Weishampel (1983), Blows (1983), Sanz et al. (1987), Hutt et al. (1989), Sues and Norman (1990), Grigorescu (1992), Norman (1997), Ryan (1997), Tallodi Posmosanu and Popa (1997), Blows (1998), Naish and Martill (2001), Ruiz-Omeñaca and Canudo (2003), Norman (2004), Stanford et al. (2004), Galton and Molnar (2005), Pereda Suberbiola et al. (2006), Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. (2007), Naish and Martill (2008), Butler et al. (2008), Galton (2009), McDonald et al. (2010), McDonald et al. (2012), Zheng et al. (2013), Verdú et al. (2014), Barrett (2016), Hübner (2016), Herne et al. (2018), Madzia et al. (2018), Herne et al. (2019), Cruzado-Caballero et al. (2019), Dieudonné et al. (2020), Rotatori et al. (2022).