EUCAMEROTUS
a macronarian sauropod dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of England.
Pronunciation: YOO-kam-uh-ROHT-us
Meaning: Well-chambered
Author/s: Blows (
1995)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: Isle of White, England
Discovery Chart Position: #398
Eucamerotus foxi
(Fox's Well-Chambered One)Etymology
Eucamerotus is derived from the Greek "eu-" (good, well) and "kamarotos" (chambered) referring to the pneumatic chambers in its vertebrae.
The
species epithet, foxi, honors Rev. William D. Fox (1813-1881).
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Early Jurassic
Stage: Barremian
Age range: 126-121 mya
Stats:
Est. max. length: ?
Est. max. hip height: ?
Est. max. weight: ?
Diet: Herbivore
Discovery
The first remains of
Eucamerotus were discovered in the Wessex Formation (Wealden group), near Brighstone Bay on the Isle of Wight, England, by William Fox in 1869.
The
holotype (BMNH R2522) is a vertebral arch. BMNH R89 (two back vertebrae), BMNH R90 (two more back vertebrae), and BMNH R2524 (another back vertebra, from a juvenile) were designated paratypes in 1995 by William Blows.
At the same time, he also referred BMNH R91 and BMNH R2523 (3+3 back vertebrae), BMNH R406, BMNH R708 and MIWG 5125 (three partial back vertebrae), MIWG 5314 (a partial juvenile back vertebra), BMNH R94 (vertebral fragments), and MIWG-BP001 (an as yet undescribed partial skeleton) to
Eucamerotus. The latter referral has not been generally accepted.
References
• Hulke JW (1872) "Appendix to a "Note on a new and undescribed Wealden Vertebra"
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 28: 36.
• Hulke JW (1879) "Note (3rd) on (
Eucamerotus, Hulke)
Ornithopsis, H. G. Seeley, =
Bothriospondylus magnus, Owen, =
Chondrosteosaurus magnus, Owen".
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 35: 752-762.
• von Huene F (1909) "Skizze zu einer Systematik und Stammesgeschichte der Dinosaurier".
Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, 1909: 12-22.
• Romer AS (1956) "Osteology of the Reptiles".
University of Chicago Press.
• Steel R (1970) "Saurischia".
Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie/ Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology. Part 14. Gustav Fischer Verlag:Stuttgart: 1-87.
• Blows WT (1995) "
The Early Cretaceous brachiosaurid dinosaurs Ornithopsis and Eucamerotus from the Isle of Wight, England".
Palaeontology, 38(1): 187-197 
• Naish D and DM Martill (2001) "Saurischian dinosaurs 1: Sauropods". Page 185-241 in Martill and Naish (eds.) "
Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight".
• Upchurch PM, Barrett PM and Dodson P (2004) "Sauropoda". Page 259-322 in Weishampel, Dodson and Osmólska (eds.) "
The Dinosauria: Second Edition".
• Santucci RM and Bertini RJ (2005) "On the phylogenetic relationships of
Eucamerotus foxi (Sauropoda, Saurischia), from Wessex Formation, Lower Cretaceous, England (UK)".
• Campbell? A, Upchurch P and Mannion PD (2017) "The anatomy and relationships of
Eucamerotus foxi (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Early Cretaceous of England".
PeerJ Preprints, 5: e3247v1 DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.3247v1.
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