The Dinosaurs - Calamospondylus, an enigmatic Isle of Wight Coelurosaur

Calamospondylus, an enigmatic Isle of Wight Coelurosaur

Meaning

Reed vertebrae

Length

Unknown

Classification

Theropoda,
Coelurosauria

‘Calamospondylus oweni’ Fox, in Anon. 1866

Locations

Known from the Wessex Formation, so try Brighstone bay.

There is only one known specimen of Calamospondylus, a sacrum, which consisted of five cemented, pneumatised, vertebrae with sacral ribs and portions of the other iliac bones. However, this is now lost, and nobody bothered to get a picture of it, so no work can be done on it by anybody.

Material is currently non-existant, so please report it if you find some…

NAISH, D., HUTT, S. and MARTILL, D. M. 2001. Saurichian (sic) dinosaurs 2: theropods. In MARTILL, D. M. and NAISH, D (eds). Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight. The Palaeontological Association. Field Guide to Fossils 10, 242-309.

NAISH, D. 2002. The historical taxonomy of the Lower Cretaceous theropods (Dinosauria) Calamospondylus and Aristosuchus from the Isle of Wight. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, 113, 153–163