Camarillasaurus
Name:
Camarillasaurus
(Camarillas lizard).
Phonetic: Cam-ah-rill-ah-sore-us.
Named By: Barbara Sanchez-Hern�ndez and Michael J.
Benton - 2012.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Theropoda, Spinosauridae?
Species: C. cirugedae
(type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: Spain, Teruel Province -
Camarillas Formation.
Time period: Barremian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Fragmentary post cranial
remains and a tooth.
Although
based upon the description of fragmentary fossil remains, the actual
discovery of Camarillasaurus is a significant
revelation in itself
since it is one of the few ceratosaurs
known from the early
Cretaceous period. This is directly in between the heyday of the
ceratosaurs in the late Jurassic, and their second revival in the
late Cretaceous. Although the discovery of late Cretaceous
ceratosaurs proves that they did not disappear completely after the end
of the Jurassic, the discovery of Camarillasaurus
at least confirms
that the ceratosaurs were still active in Europe. During
its description, Camarillasaurus was treated as
being
phylogenetically similar to Limusaurus,
one of the earliest known
ceratosaurs that lived in China during the late Jurassic.
Later
in 2019 however a new assessment regarded Camarillasaurus to possibly
be a spinosaur.
Further reading
- Filling the ceratosaur gap: A new ceratosaurian theropod from the
Early Cretaceous of Spain - Barbara Sanchez-Hern�ndez &
Michael J.
Benton - 2012.- A reappraisal of the early cretaceous theropod
dinosaur Camarillasaurus from spain XVII Conference
of the EAVP –
Brussels, Belgium. - O. W. M. Rauhut, J. Ignacio Canudo & D.
Castanera - 2019.
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