Callovosaurus

Taxobox
name = "Callovosaurus"
status = fossil
fossil_range = Middle Jurassic
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Ornithischia
subordo = Ornithopoda
infraordo = Iguanodontia
familia = Dryosauridae
genus = "Callovosaurus"

"Callovosaurus" ("Callovian lizard") is a primitive Iguanodont dinosaur from the mid-Jurassic period in England. The diet of "Callovosaurus", like that of other Iguanodonts, was plant material. Among its contemporaries were "Lexovisaurus" and "Cetiosaurus". Predators of the same time period included "Eustreptospondylus" and "Megalosaurus". "Callovosaurus" probably traveled in herds (based on behaviors of more well known ornithopods like "Iguanodon") to avoid being attacked by these predators.

The type species, "C. leedsi", was first described by Lydekker in 1889 and redescribed by Galton in 1980.

References

* http://www.dinoruss.com/de_4/5a7a391.htm