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4 unusual facts about Charles Lewis Camp


Andre Keyser

The 1948 Camp-Peabody expedition from the United States failed to find any hominid remains.

Charles Lewis Camp

He took part in excavations at the 'Placerias Quarry', in 1930 and the 40 Shonisaurus skeleton discoveries of the 1960, in what is now the Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park.

Platynota

In 1923, Charles Lewis Camp included the groups Varanoidea and Mosasauroidea, or monitor lizards and mosasaurs (a group of large marine reptiles from the Cretaceous).

Plotosaurus

Originally named Kolposaurus (meaning "bay lizard") by Berkeley paleontologist Charles Lewis Camp in 1942, it was changed to Plotosaurus in 1951 when Camp discovered the name had already been assigned to a type of nothosaur.



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