 Camp served as the third director of the University of California Museum of Paleontology from 1930 to 1949, and coincidentally as chair of the UC Berkeley Paleontology Department between 1939 and 1949.Camp named a number of species of marine reptiles such as "Shonisaurus" and "Plotosaurus", as well as the dinosaur "Segisaurus".Camp was also an important bibliographer and historian of Western America.