Camposaurus arizonensis Hunt et al. 1998 (coelophysoid)

Reptilia - Theropoda - Coelophysidae

Full reference: A. P. Hunt, S. G. Lucas, A. B. Heckert, R. M. Sullivan, and M. G. Lockley. 1998. Late Triassic dinosaurs from the western United States. Géobios 31(4):511-531

Belongs to Camposaurus according to S. J. Nesbitt and M. D. Ezcurra 2015

See also Ezcurra 2017, Ezcurra and Brusatte 2011, Hunt et al. 1998, Irmis 2005, Martill et al. 2016, Martinez and Apaldetti 2017, Martínez et al. 2016, Nesbitt et al. 2007, Parker 2005, Spielmann et al. 2007 and Tykoski and Rowe 2004

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: UCMP 34498, a set of postcrania. Its type locality is Placerias Quarry, UCMP A269, which is in a Norian wet floodplain mudstone/claystone in the Chinle Formation of Arizona.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Placerias Quarry, UCMP A269

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