Megalosauroidea (meaning 'great/big lizard forms') is a superfamily (or clade) of tetanuran theropod dinosaurs that lived from the Middle Jurassic to...
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the Coelurosauria at the Neotetanurae/Avetheropoda node. Members of Megalosauroidea are believed to represent basal tetanurans, but recent discoveries...
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have revived Carnosauria as clade including both Allosauroidea and Megalosauroidea (which is sometimes recovered as paraphyletic with respect to Allosauroidea)...
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Monolophosaurus, together forming a clade belonging either to Megalosauroidea or outside of Megalosauroidea in the Tetanurae. In 2012, Matthew Carrano et al. found...
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monophyletic family of carnivorous theropod dinosaurs within the group Megalosauroidea. Appearing in the Middle Jurassic, megalosaurids were among the first...
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specialised again than the ceratosaurs. They are subdivided into the basal Megalosauroidea (alternately Spinosauroidea) and the more derived Avetheropoda. Megalosauridae...
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coelurosaurs, including compsognathids, finds Sciurumimus back in Megalosauroidea. Sciurumimus is known from a single holotype fossil that is exceptionally...
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meaningful way, as a sister taxon to the family Spinosauridae within the Megalosauroidea. A 2002 analysis, focused mainly on the noasaurids, found Afrovenator...
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†Noasaurinae (small carnivores) Tetanurae (stiff-tailed dinosaurs) †Megalosauroidea (early group of large carnivores) †Piatnitzkysauridae (small basal...
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Spinosauridae in the Megalosauroidea. Later, Benson et al. (2010) found the Chuandongocoelurus/Monolophosaurus clade to be outside of Megalosauroidea and Neotetanurae...
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seen within Tetanurae. Their phylogenetic analysis found traditional Megalosauroidea to represent a basal grade of carnosaurs, paraphyletic with respect...
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Noasauridae †Family Ceratosauridae Infraorder Tetanurae †Superfamily Megalosauroidea †Family Megalosauridae †Family Spinosauridae †Parvorder Carnosauria...
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clades with Megalosauroidea is poorly supported by tree support metrics, and it is possible that they will be classified outside of Megalosauroidea by future...
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skull. However, some propose that this group (which is known as the Megalosauroidea) is paraphyletic and that spinosaurs represent either the most basal...
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Stratigrafia. 129 (1). doi:10.54103/2039-4942/18306. ISSN 2039-4942. "Megalosauroidea". https://www.researchgate.net/publication/380168073_Triassic-Jura...
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Sanz, J.; Ortega, F. (2019). "A new spinosaurid theropod (Dinosauria: Megalosauroidea) from the late Barremian of Vallibona, Spain: Implications for spinosaurid...
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the palaeontologist Roger Benson considered this a junior synonym of Megalosauroidea (an older name). In a 2007 conference abstract, the palaeontologist...
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Francisco (February 2020). "A new spinosaurid theropod (Dinosauria: Megalosauroidea) from the late Barremian of Vallibona, Spain: Implications for spinosaurid...
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Pedro S.R. (2021). "Rostral morphology of Spinosauridae (Theropoda, Megalosauroidea): Premaxilla shape variation and a new phylogenetic inference". Historical...
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avoid competition so that they could coexist in the same environment. "Megalosauroidea". www.theropoddatabase.com. Retrieved 2020-12-10. Holtz, Thomas R....
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between piatnitzkysaurids and metriacanthosaurids, and traditional Megalosauroidea as a paraphyletic grade leading to Allosauroidea. The unique combination...
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