Calamosaurus Temporal range: Barremian,
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Cervical vertebra of Calamosaurus foxi | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Family: | †Compsognathidae |
Genus: | †Calamosaurus Lydekker, 1891 |
Species: | †C. foxi
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Binomial name | |
†Calamosaurus foxi (Lydekker, 1889 [originally Calamospondylus])
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Calamosaurus (meaning "reed lizard") was a genus of small theropod dinosaur from the Barremian-age Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, England. It is based on two cervical vertebrae (BMNH R901), collected by Reverend William Fox.