What is Calamosaurus?
{{italic title}} {{taxobox | name = ''Calamosaurus'' | fossil_range = [[Lower Cretaceous]] | image = Calamosaurus.jpg | image_width = 200px | image_caption = Cervical vertebra of ''Calamosaurus foxi'' | regnum= [[Animalia]] | classis = [[Sauropsida]] | superordo = [[Dinosauria]] | ordo = [[Saurischia]] | subordo = [[Theropoda]] | infraordo = [[Coelurosauria]] | familia = [[Compsognathidae]] | genus = '''''Calamosaurus''''' | parent_authority = [[Richard Lydekker|Lydekker]], [[1891 in paleontology|1891]] | authority = (Lydekker, [[1889 in paleontology|1889]] [originally ''[[Calamospondylus]]''])}} '''''Calamosaurus''''' was a [[genus]] of small [[theropod]] [[dinosaur]] from the [[Lower Cretaceous]] of the [[Isle of Wight]]. == Paleobiology == As a possible basal coelurosaur, ''Calamosaurus'' would have been a small, [[wikt:agile|agile]], [[biped]]al [[carnivore]]. Naish ''et al'' 2001. estimate the living animal would have been around 3–5 meters long (9.8-16.4&nbsp;feet), with a small head given the build of the neck vertebrae.<ref>Naish D; Hutt S. and Martill D.M. 2001. Saurischian dinosaurs 2: theropods. In: Martill D.M., and Naish D. (eds) ''Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight''. London The Palaeontological Association, 242-309. {{ISBN|0-901702-72-2}}</ref> There is too little material to say much more about it. == References == {{reflist}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Dinosaurs of Europe]] [[Category:Cretaceous dinosaurs]] [[Category:Theropods]]