Callovosaurus

Callovosaurus is a genus of dryosaurid or basal iguanodontian dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic period of England.

History
Callovosaurus was known from a femur, now stored in the Natural History Museum in London. The bone was first found in the Oxford Clay rock formation in Cambridgeshire, England way back in 1889, although it was originally called as "Camptosaurus leedsi", until only 20 years later, in 1909, when Charles Whitney Gilmore saw it was closer to Dryosaurus than Camptosaurus, and soon fell by the wayside until Peter Galton reviwed it in 1980, when he finally re-named it as Callovosaurus.

Classification
As mentioned above, Callovosaurus was originally thought to have been a relative of Camptosaurus, until later was confirmed it was closer to Dryosaurus. This was once regarded as dubious because the speces was originally based on a femur, until recently a tibia has been assigned to the genus.

Habitat
Callovosaurus lived in the Middle Jurassic of England, sharing its habitat with pterosaurs, marine reptiles, fish, invertebrates, and other dinosaurs such as Lexovisaurus.

Fast facts

 * Special ability: Fast running
 * Description: Small dryosaurid dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of England.
 * Diet: Low growing plants
 * Weight: uncertain
 * Meaning of name: "Callovian reptile"
 * Fun fact: Callovosaurus lived alongside dinosaurs such as sauropods and stegosaurs.
 * Classification: Ornithopoda --> Dryosauridae
 * In popular culture: the Jurassic Park novel adaptation
 * Size: 7.5 feet (2.5 meters)

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