Pronunciation: kal-uh-mo-SPON-dih-lus
Meaning: Reed vertebrae
Author/s: Fox (1866)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: Isle of Wight, UK
Discovery Chart Position: #24
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CALAMOSPONDYLUS
a dubious coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of England
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Hauterivian
Age range: 130 myaStats:
Est. max. length: ?
Est. max. hip height: ?
Est. max. weight: ?
Diet: CarnivoreReferences
• Fox WD in Anonymous (1866) "Another Wealden reptile". Athenaeum 2014:740.
• Lydekker R (1889) "VIII—On a coelurid dinosaur from the Wealden." Geological Magazine, 6(3): 119-121. DOI: 10.1017/s0016756800176149.
• Lydekker R (1891) "On certain ornithosaurian and dinosaurian remains." Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 47: 41-44. DOI: 10.1144/GSL.JGS.1891.047.01-04.0.
• Norman DB (1990) "Problematic Theropoda: Coelurosaurs". Page 280-305 in Weishampel, Dodson and Osmólska (eds.) "The Dinosauria: First Edition".
• Naish D (2002) "The historical taxonomy of the Lower Cretaceous theropods (Dinosauria) Calamospondylus and Aristosuchus from the Isle of Wight". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 113(2): 153-163.
• Naish D, Hutt S and Martill DM (2001) "Saurischian dinosaurs 2: theropods". Page 242-309 in Martill and Naish (eds.) "Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight".
• Galton PM and Molnar RE (2005) "Tibiae of small theropod dinosaurs from Southern England: from the Middle Jurassic of Stonesfield near Oxford and the Lower Cretaceous of the Isle of Wight". Page 3-22 in Carpenter (ed.) "The Carnivorous Dinosaurs"
• Naish D (2011) "Theropod dinosaurs". Page 526–559 in Batten (ed.) "English Wealden Fossils" (Field Guide to Fossils Number 14).
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