Camelotia

Camelotia (meaning "from Camelot") is a large-bodied sauropodomorph from the latest Triassic (Rhaetian) of southwest England. It is best known from a partial postcranial skeleton found in the Westbury Formation and named by Peter M. Galton in 1985. Subsequent work has generally placed Camelotia as a relatively derived sauropodomorph close to the origin of Sauropoda, although its exact position among early non-sauropod sauropodomorphs remains debated. It is sometimes placed in Melanorosauridae as a close relative of Melanorosaurus. With a body length and mass estimated at and , respectively, it is one of the largest sauropodomorphs known from the Triassic.

==Discovery and naming== The first discovery of a large dinosaur in the Triassic of England was in 1894 in the parish of Wedmore, where quarrying to the south-east of the village exposed multiple large fragments brought to the attention of William Ayshford Sanford by his brother-in-law Sydenham Henry Augustus Hervey. Sanford and Hervey collected multiple bones themselves, and from the cottages of the quarry workmen, and Sanford cleaned and prepared them to compare with other dinosaurs. Taking the bones, including partial limbs and other elements, to the Natural History Museum, London for comparison, he would they bore enough resemblance to those of Megalosaurus to conclude that a very large megalosaur was present in the Mendip Hills during the Triassic. However, despite their clear difference from other known taxa, Sanford declined to name them and instead gave them to the NHMUK to be studied by palaeontologist Harry Govier Seeley.