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Camptosauridae (camptosaurid)

Reptilia - Camptosauridae

Taxonomy

Camptosauridae was named by Marsh (1885). Its type is Camptosaurus.

It was reranked as the subfamily Camptosauridae by Nopcsa (1901); it was synonymized subjectively with Iguanodontidae by Madsen and Miller (1979).

It was assigned to Ornithopoda by Zittel (1890); to Ornithopoda by Van Den Broeck (1900); to Kalodontidae by Nopcsa (1901); to Iguanodontoidea by Hay (1902); to Ornithopodidae by von Zittel (1911); to Orthopoda by Cope (1891), Cope (1898), Lull (1911), Gilmore (1913); to Iguanodontoidae by Hay (1930); to Kalodontoidea by Huene (1948); to Brachypoda by Thulborn (1974), Thulborn (1977); to Camptosauroidea by Cooper (1985); to Ornithopoda by Marsh (1885), Dollo (1889), Winkler (1893), Marsh (1895), Marsh (1896), Arldt (1909), Huene (1909), Matthew (1915), Lull (1924), Kuhn (1946), Huene (1959), Kuhn (1966), Chure et al. (2006); to Iguanodontia by Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. (2007); and to Ankylopollexia by Norman and Weishampel (1990), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Sereno (1999), Galton (2007), Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. (2007), Butler et al. (2008), Galton (2009).

Synonyms

Camptonotidae was named by Marsh (1881). Its type is Hypsilophodon.

It was replaced with Camptosauridae by Marsh (1895), Marsh (1896), Hay (1902), Hay (1930), Kuhn (1966).

It was assigned to Ornithopoda by Marsh (1881), Sauvage (1882), Marsh (1882), Marsh (1884).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1881	Camptonotidae Marsh
1882	Camptonotidae Marsh
1882	Camptonotidae Sauvage p. 35
1884	Camptonotidae Marsh p. 68
1885	Camptosauridae Marsh p. 169
1889	Camptosauridae Dollo p. 679
1890	Camptosauridae Zittel p. 755
1891	Camptosauridae Cope p. 43
1893	Camptosauridae Winkler p. 111
1895	Camptosauridae Marsh
1896	Camptosauridae Marsh p. 243
1898	Camptosauridae Cope p. 70
1900	Camptosauridae Van Den Broeck p. 86
1901	Camptosauridae Nopcsa p. 208
1902	Camptosauridae Hay p. 501
1909	Camptosauridae Arldt p. 263
1909	Camptosauridae Huene p. 16
1911	Camptosauridae Lull p. 204
1911	Camptosauridae von Zittel p. 289
1913	Camptosauridae Gilmore p. 5
1915	Camptosauridae Matthew p. 32
1924	Camptosauridae Lull p. 238
1930	Camptosauridae Hay p. 204
1946	Camptosauridae Kuhn p. 66
1948	Camptosauridae Huene p. 94
1959	Camptosauridae Huene p. 121
1966	Camptosauridae Kuhn p. 102
1974	Camptosauridae Thulborn p. 172
1977	Camptosauridae Thulborn p. 726 fig. 1
1985	Camptosauridae Cooper p. 286
1990	Camptosauridae Norman and Weishampel p. 530
1997	Camptosauridae Sereno p. 443
1998	Camptosauridae Sereno p. 62
1999	Camptosauridae Sereno p. 2138 fig. 2
2006	Camptosauridae Chure et al. p. 237
2007	Camptosauridae Galton p. 39
2007	Camptosauridae Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. p. 8
2007	Camptosauridae Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. p. 83
2008	Camptosauridae Butler et al. p. 8
2009	Camptosauridae Galton p. 215

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
subclass	Eureptilia	()
—	Romeriida

Rank	Name	Author
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
—	Ornithischia	()
—	Genasauria
—	Cerapoda
—	Ornithopoda	()
—	Clypeodonta
—	Iguanodontia	()
—	Dryomorpha
—	Ankylopollexia
family	Camptosauridae
family	Camptosauridae

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Fm. †Camptosauridae Marsh 1885 [camptosaurid]

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Invalid names: Camptonotidae Marsh 1881 [synonym]

Diagnosis

Reference	Diagnosis
K. A. v. Zittel 1890	Zioischenkiefer seitlich bezahlt. Rückenwirbel platycöl. Postpabis bis zum distalen Ende des Ischium reichend. Erste Zehe des Vorderfusses etwas länger, alsdiefünfte. Hinterfuss mit 4 Zehen. Femur mit hängendem viertem Trochanter.
B. F. Nopcsa 1901	Intermaxillare fogatlan. Mellsö csigolyák opistocoelek; 5 szabad sacrumcsigolya. Sternum nincs csontosodva. Pubes az ischium távolabbi végéig ér. Femur hosszabb mint a tibia. A kézen 5, a llábon 4 (3 müködö) ujj van. Körmök. [Intermaxillary toothless. Trunk vertebrae opistocoelous; 5 free sacrum vertebrae. Sternum is not ossified. Pubes reaches the distal end of the ischium. Femur longer than tibia. There are 5 fingers on the hand and 4 (3 working) fingers on the foot. Nails.]
R. S. Lull 1924	Toothless prernaxillary; teeth in more than one functional row; anterior vertebra opisthoccelous; sacrals not coössified; ilium with long preacetabular process; postpubis slender and equaling ischium in length; femur longer than tibia; five-fingered hand; four- toed foot; Jurassic and Comanchian.
F. v. Huene 1948	Quadrupedal or bipedal. Relatively few teeth; cervicals without neural spine; ischium and pubis of equal length; short front leg; pes digitigrad with 4 toes; manus with 5 fingers. Upper Jurassic to Upper Cretaceous.

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

hydroxyapatiteo

Entire body:

yeso

Adult length:

10 to < 100o

Adult width:

1.0 to < 10o

Adult height:

1.0 to < 10o

Architecture:

compact or denseo

Ontogeny:

accretion, modification of partso

Grouping:

gregariouso

Environment:

terrestrialo

Locomotion:

actively mobileo

Life habit:

ground dwellingo

Diet:

herbivoresubo

Reproduction:

oviparouso

Dispersal:

direct/internalo

Dispersal 2:

mobileo

Created:

2009-01-03 20:40:05

Modified:

2009-01-03 22:40:05

Source: subo = suborder, o = order

References: Marsh 1875, Benton 1983

Age range: base of the Oxfordian to the top of the Late/Upper Berriasian or 163.50000 to 140.20000 Ma

Collections (8 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Middle Callovian	164.7 - 161.2	United Kingdom (England)	Reptilia indet. (109800)
Oxfordian	163.5 - 157.3	Chile (Tarapaca)	Camptosauridae indet. (170681)
Kimmeridgian	157.3 - 152.1	USA (Wyoming)	Camptosauridae indet. (192747)
Kimmeridgian - Tithonian	157.3 - 145.0	USA (Colorado)	Camptosauridae indet. (52919)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Early/Lower Tithonian	155.7 - 145.0	Portugal (Centro)	Camptosauridae indet. (38680)
Middle Tithonian - Late/Upper Tithonian	150.8 - 145.0	Portugal (Centro)	Camptosaurus sp. (49248)
Late/Upper Berriasian	145.0 - 140.2	Spain (Castilla y Leon)	Camptosauridae indet. (68506)
Berriasian	145.0 - 139.8	France (Poitou-Charentes)	Iguanodontidae indet. (142093)