The type (and only known) species is Craterosaurus pottonensis, described in 1874 by Harry Seeley.[1] The specific name refers to the Potton bonebed. Seeley mistook the fossil, holotype SMC B.28814, for the base of a cranium. Franz Nopcsa in 1912 correctly identified it as the front part of a neural arch.[2] Craterosaurus was placed in Stegosauria by Galton,[3] although subsequent authors did not recognize Craterosaurus as a distinct, valid taxon.
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