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Taxa named by John Hulke
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Eucamerotus
Eucamerotus (meaning "well-chambered", in reference to the hollows of the vertebrae) is an extinct genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) Wessex Formation (Wealden) of the Isle of Wight, England. The type specimen, part of a vertebra (one of the bones of the spine), was discovered in the autumn of 1869 by John Hulke. After confirming its point of origin with the Rev. William Fox, Hulke presented his find to the Geological Society of London in 1870. Two years later, he assigned to it the name Eucamerotus, though did not provide a species name. Eucamerotus was subsequen