Camptosaurus

noun

Camp·​to·​sau·​rus

: a genus of small unspecialized bipedal duck-billed dinosaurs (order Ornithischia) widely distributed in Upper Jurassic and Early Cretaceous formations of Europe and North America

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from campto- + -saurus

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