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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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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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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seen also on Torvosaurus. Most analyses place Afrovenator within the Megalosauridae, which was formerly a "wastebasket family" which contained many large...
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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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Ceratosauridae Infraorder Tetanurae †Superfamily Megalosauroidea †Family Megalosauridae †Family Spinosauridae †Parvorder Carnosauria †Superfamily Allosauroidea...
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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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Megalosauroidea (alternately Spinosauroidea) and the more derived Avetheropoda. Megalosauridae were primarily Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous predators, and their...
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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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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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†Piatnitzkysauridae (small basal megalosauroids endemic to the Americas) †Megalosauridae (large megalosauroids with powerful arms and hands) †Spinosauridae (crocodile-like...
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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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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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height of the centrum. Originally named as a species of Megalosaurus in Megalosauridae, Metriacanthosaurus has since been reclassified in Metriacanthosauridae...
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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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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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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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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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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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first 2 genera. Originally, Xuanhanosaurus was assigned by Dong to the Megalosauridae, when this group was meant to include a larger amount of taxa, and was...
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Streptospondylus? Megalosauridae...
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page 341. Molnar (2001); "Troodontidae," page 343. Molnar (2001); "Megalosauridae," page 340. Molnar (2001); "Acrocanthosauridae fam. nov.," page 342...
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