Calamosaurus

I previously had Calamosaurus down as a compsognathid (Naish et al. 2001).

Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

We spoke about the identification of Calamosaurus, the Majungasaurus vs Majungatholus issue, the anatomy of theropod ankles, the biogeography of European Cretaceous dinosaurs, the function of tall neural spines, the arctometatarsalian pes, the confused taxonomy of Becklespinax, and much more.

Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

Thecocoelurus, Juravenator, Calamosaurus, Becklespinax and Valdoraptor are the animals that I’ve been thinking about the most I suppose, and I’d post on them if there was enough time.

Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006

The news is that a controversial little coelurosaur from the Isle of Wight’s Wessex Formation, Calamosaurus foxi (known only from two cervical vertebrae, one of them incomplete), is so similar to the cervical vertebrae of Dilong that I am confident that it too should be identified as a basal tyrannosauroid.

Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

Here’s the thing: the fact that Calamosaurus probably isn’t one of them after all leads us to a key question.

Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006