Calamosaurus
Calamosaurus was a small, meat-eating dinosaur that lived on the Isle of Wight in England during the Early Cretaceous. It was a relative of the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex, but much smaller and lighter. Scientists know it from just a few neck bones, so it is still a bit mysterious.13
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Calamosaurus is known from only two neck vertebrae, which are about 40 mm (1.6 inches) long each.1
The name Calamosaurus means 'reed lizard', because the vertebrae look light and slender like a reed.1
Scientists think Calamosaurus might be a very early relative of Tyrannosaurus rex, belonging to a group called tyrannosauroids.12
The fossils were collected by Reverend William Fox, a fossil hunter, in the 1800s.1
Calamosaurus lived in a floodplain environment with rivers and lakes, and sometimes wildfires.1
Some scientists think Calamosaurus might be a basal alvarezsauroid instead of a tyrannosauroid, showing that its family tree is still debated.1

Eyona mibuzo ibuzwa kakhulu: Calamosaurus
?How big was Calamosaurus?
It was about 3.5 metres long, which is roughly the size of a small car.1
?Is Calamosaurus a dinosaur?
Yes, it is a small theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous period.1
?Why is Calamosaurus called 'reed lizard'?
Its name means 'reed lizard' because its neck bones are light and slender, like a reed.1
Inyaniso ngeentsomi
Intsomi: Calamosaurus was a large, powerful predator like Tyrannosaurus rex.
Inyaniso: Calamosaurus was actually a small dinosaur, only about 3.5 metres (11 feet) long, and lightly built. It was a distant relative, not a giant.1
Kwiingcali zeedayinaso
- Igama lenzululwazi
- Calamosaurus
- Inikwe igama ngu:
- Lydekker 18913
- Iqela
- Iityrannosauri
- Usapho / iclade
- Tyrannosauroidea3
- Ukuhlelwa
- Theropoda > Tyrannosauroidea3
- Ubudala bamatye
- 126 ukuya ku-120 izigidi zeminyaka (Barremian / Aptian)3
- Amazwe
- iUnited Kingdom3
- Iirekhodi zeefosili
- 1 kwi-Paleobiology Database3
- Ukufunyanwa
- The fossils were collected by Reverend William Fox on the Isle of Wight. Richard Lydekker named them Calamospondylus foxi in 1889, but later changed the name to Calamosaurus foxi in 1891 because the first name was already used.1
- Kusaxoxwa ngayo
- Scientists are not sure whether Calamosaurus belongs to the tyrannosauroid group or the alvarezsauroid group. More fossils are needed to settle the debate.1
Apho iinyani zivela khona
- Calamosaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Calamosaurus, an Isle of Wight tyrannosauroid - DinoWight (dinowight.org.uk)
- Calamosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): ubudala, iindawo, izakhiwo zamatye, ukuhlelwa.
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