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    Megalosauridae is a monophyletic family of carnivorous theropod dinosaurs within the group Megalosauroidea. Appearing in the Middle Jurassic, megalosaurids...
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    Piatnitzkysaurus than to either Spinosaurus or Megalosaurus. Within Megalosauridae a new subfamily was named, Afrovenatorinae, to include all megalosaurids...
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    running seen in abelisaurids. Most analyses place Afrovenator within the Megalosauridae, which was formerly a "wastebasket family" which contained many large...
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    most large carnivorous dinosaurs were serially arrayed into the family Megalosauridae within the order Theropoda. In 1914, Friedrich von Huene separated small...
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    picture, by comparing Megalosaurus with its direct relatives in the Megalosauridae. Megalosaurus was about 6 metres (20 ft) long, weighing about 700 kilograms...
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    Megalosaurinae. However, Torvosauridae may be used as an alternative name for Megalosauridae if Megalosaurus is considered an indeterminable nomen dubium. Though...
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    its outer side. In 1964, Walker assigned Eustreptrospondylus to the Megalosauridae, which was historically included in a paraphyletic "Carnosauria", though...
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    year earlier) as one of his three families of dinosaurs (alongside Megalosauridae and Scelidosauridae), including within it the genera Iguanodon, Hypsilophodon...
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    height of the centrum. Originally named as a species of Megalosaurus in Megalosauridae, Metriacanthosaurus has since been reclassified in Metriacanthosauridae...
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    †Piatnitzkysauridae (small basal megalosauroids endemic to the Americas) †Megalosauridae (large megalosauroids with powerful arms and hands) †Spinosauridae (crocodile-like...
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    Velociraptor was placed in the family Megalosauridae, as was the case with most carnivorous dinosaurs at the time (Megalosauridae, like Megalosaurus, functioned...
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    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...
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    three-fingered hands. In 2002, Poekilopleuron? valesdunensis was assigned to the Megalosauridae. In 2012, Carrano et al. refined this to the Afrovenatorinae, in which...
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    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...
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    Megalosauridae Allosauroidea...
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    Ceratosauridae Infraorder Tetanurae †Superfamily Megalosauroidea †Family Megalosauridae †Family Spinosauridae †Parvorder Carnosauria †Superfamily Allosauroidea...
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    Monolophosaurus in a clade with Chuandongocoelurus that is more basal than Megalosauridae and Spinosauridae in the Megalosauroidea. Later, Benson et al. (2010)...
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    known European theropods. In 2016, Wiehenvenator was placed in the Megalosauridae as a sister taxon to Torvosaurus. The following is a cladogram based...
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    Megalosauroidea (alternately Spinosauroidea) and the more derived Avetheropoda. Megalosauridae were primarily Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous predators, and their...
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    Marsh, but the term was largely unused until the 1970s in favor of Megalosauridae, another family of large theropods that eventually became a wastebasket...
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    the equivalent of the Allosauridae, but it was transferred to the Megalosauridae, a wastebasket taxon, by Alfred Sherwood Romer in 1956. To other authors...
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    appeared during the late Early Jurassic or early Middle Jurassic. The Megalosauridae represent the oldest radiation of the Tetanurae, first appearing in...
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    "Structural performance of tetanuran theropod skulls, with emphasis on the Megalosauridae, Spinosauridae and Carcharodontosauridae". STUDIES ON FOSSIL TETRAPODS...
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    Streptospondylus? Megalosauridae...
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    Spinosauridae Megalosauridae...
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    years, separate authors classified Ceratosaurus within Deinodontidae, Megalosauridae, Coelurosauria, Carnosauria, and Deinodontoidea.: 2  In his 1920 revision...
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    Streptospondylus? Megalosauridae...
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    "Structural performance of tetanuran theropod skulls, with emphasis on the Megalosauridae, Spinosauridae and Carcharodontosauridae". Special Papers in Palaeontology...
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    Streptospondylus was in the 20th century typically classified in the Megalosauridae. Recent analyses indicate that Streptospondylus is a tetanuran theropod...
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    Streptospondylus? Megalosauridae...
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