Uteodon

The holotype specimen, CM 11337 (a virtually complete skeleton minus the skull and tail), was assigned to Camptosaurus medius (Marsh, 1894) by Charles W. Gilmore in 1925. When C. medius was synonymised with Camptosaurus dispar in 1980, the holotype was seen to probably represent a new, then unnamed, species of Camptosaurus. The species Camptosaurus aphanoecetes was first described in 2008 by Carpenter and Wilson. In 2011, it was assigned to the new genus Uteodon. == Description ==

File:Uteodon Scale.svg|thumb|250px|Size comparison based on Hartman (2013) ==Paleoecology==

Provenance and occurrence The single known specimen of Uteodon, CM 11337, was found in the Carnegie Quarry/Douglass Quarry of the Brushy Basin Member of the Morrison Formation, Utah. Fauna and habitat of Uteodon Studies suggest that the paleoenvironment of this section of the Morrison Formation included rivers that flowed from the west into a basin that contained a giant, saline alkaline lake and there were extensive wetlands in the vicinity. The Dry Mesa Dinosaur Quarry of western Colorado yields one of the most diverse Upper Jurassic vertebrate assemblages in the world. The Dry Mesa Quarry has produced the remains of the sauropods Apatosaurus, Diplodocus, Barosaurus, Supersaurus, and Camarasaurus, the ornithopods Camptosaurus and Dryosaurus, and the theropods Allosaurus, Torvosaurus. Tanycolagreus, Koparion, Stokesosaurus, Ceratosaurus, and Ornitholestes, as well as Nanosaurus, Gargoyleosaurus, and Stegosaurus. The flora of the period has been revealed by fossils of green algae, fungi, mosses, horsetails, ferns, cycads, ginkgoes, and several families of conifers. Animal fossils discovered include bivalves, snails, ray-finned fishes, frogs, salamanders, amphibians, turtles, sphenodonts, lizards, terrestrial (like Hoplosuchus) and aquatic crocodylomorphs, cotylosaurs, several species of pterosaurs like Harpactognathus, and early mammals, multituberculates, symmetrodonts, and triconodonts. ==References==