Megalosauridae is a monophyletic family of carnivorous theropod dinosaurs within the group Megalosauroidea. Appearing in the Middle Jurassic, megalosaurids...

Piatnitzkysaurus than to either Spinosaurus or Megalosaurus. Within Megalosauridae a new subfamily was named, Afrovenatorinae, to include all megalosaurids...

most large carnivorous dinosaurs were serially arrayed into the family Megalosauridae within the order Theropoda. In 1914, Friedrich von Huene separated small...

Megalosaurinae. However, Torvosauridae may be used as an alternative name for Megalosauridae if Megalosaurus is considered an indeterminable nomen dubium. Though...

seen also on Torvosaurus. Most analyses place Afrovenator within the Megalosauridae, which was formerly a "wastebasket family" which contained many large...

its outer side. In 1964, Walker assigned Eustreptrospondylus to the Megalosauridae, which was historically included in a paraphyletic "Carnosauria", though...

Ceratosauridae Infraorder Tetanurae †Superfamily Megalosauroidea †Family Megalosauridae †Family Spinosauridae †Parvorder Carnosauria †Superfamily Allosauroidea...

diverse group that includes modern birds), and to belong in the family Megalosauridae. The long teeth at the front of the lower jaw may have been used for...

year earlier) as one of his three families of dinosaurs (alongside Megalosauridae and Scelidosauridae), including within it the genera Iguanodon, Hypsilophodon...

Megalosauroidea (alternately Spinosauroidea) and the more derived Avetheropoda. Megalosauridae were primarily Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous predators, and their...

picture, by comparing Megalosaurus with its direct relatives in the Megalosauridae. Megalosaurus was about 6 metres (20 ft) long, weighing about 700 kilograms...

Sinraptoridae – a group of carnosaurian theropods, but it may belong to Megalosauridae instead. The holotype (QW 200701) was found in 2007. It is a fairly...

Velociraptor was placed in the family Megalosauridae, as was the case with most carnivorous dinosaurs at the time (Megalosauridae, like Megalosaurus, functioned...

†Piatnitzkysauridae (small basal megalosauroids endemic to the Americas) †Megalosauridae (large megalosauroids with powerful arms and hands) †Spinosauridae (crocodile-like...

Streptospondylus? Megalosauridae...

known European theropods. In 2016, Wiehenvenator was placed in the Megalosauridae as a sister taxon to Torvosaurus. The following is a cladogram based...

Megalosauridae Allosauroidea...

Monolophosaurus in a clade with Chuandongocoelurus that is more basal than Megalosauridae and Spinosauridae in the Megalosauroidea. Later, Benson et al. (2010)...

appeared during the late Early Jurassic or early Middle Jurassic. The Megalosauridae represent the oldest radiation of the Tetanurae, first appearing in...

Megalosauridae...

Streptospondylus? Megalosauridae...

three-fingered hands. In 2002, Poekilopleuron? valesdunensis was assigned to the Megalosauridae. In 2012, Carrano et al. refined this to the Afrovenatorinae, in which...

height of the centrum. Originally named as a species of Megalosaurus in Megalosauridae, Metriacanthosaurus has since been reclassified in Metriacanthosauridae...

Marsh, but the term was largely unused until the 1970s in favor of Megalosauridae, another family of large theropods that eventually became a wastebasket...

Streptospondylus? Megalosauridae...

Streptospondylus? Megalosauridae...

Streptospondylus? Megalosauridae...

the equivalent of the Allosauridae, but it was transferred to the Megalosauridae, a wastebasket taxon, by Alfred Sherwood Romer in 1956. To other authors...

Streptospondylus? Megalosauridae...

Streptospondylus? Megalosauridae...