Callovosaurus

Field photograph to come

DV-0263Oxford Clay Fm., United Kingdom

Callovosaurus

DV-0263

Lived
165 to 162 million years ago, Middle Jurassic
Diet
Herbivore
Group
Ornithopods
Found in
United Kingdom
Named by
Galton 1980

Field notes

About Callovosaurus

Callovosaurus was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Middle Jurassic, 165 to 162 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Callovosaurus, from United Kingdom. Its fossils come from the Oxford Clay Formation. It was named by Galton in 1980.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

165 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Euiguanodontia.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: P. M. Galton. 1980. European Jurassic ornithopod dinosaurs of the families Hypsilophodontidae and Camptosauridae. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 160(1):73-95