Cumnoria

"from Cumnor" (a place near Oxford, England)

• Cumnor · English place name · Cumnor, near Oxford, England
• -ia · Latin · Latinised place-name suffix

Cumnoria is named after Cumnor, the area near Oxford, England, where the type fossils were found in the Kimmeridge Clay. The species was first described as Iguanodon prestwichii by Hulke in 1880, and Seeley gave it its own genus in 1888, using the place name with a Latinised "-ia" ending.

Named by

Seeley

Year named

1888

Period

Late Jurassic

Stage

Kimmeridgian

Found in

Kimmeridge Clay Formation, Cumnor, Oxfordshire, England

An ornithopod dinosaur (a camptosaurid relative). Type species Cumnoria prestwichii. It was long treated as a junior synonym of Camptosaurus, but was reinstated as a distinct genus by McDonald in 2011, though not all researchers agree. Both its status and its etymology are given with moderate confidence.