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Megalosaurus (meaning "great lizard", from Greek μέγας, megas, meaning 'big', 'tall' or 'great' and σαῦρος, sauros, meaning 'lizard') is an extinct genus of large carnivorous theropod dinosaurs of the Middle Jurassic Epoch ( Bathonian stage, 166 million years ago) of southern England. Although fossils from other areas have been ...
Megalosauridae is a monophyletic family of carnivorous theropod dinosaurs within the group Megalosauroidea. Appearing in the Middle Jurassic, megalosaurids were among the first major radiation of large theropod dinosaurs. [1] They were a relatively primitive group of basal tetanurans containing two main subfamilies, Megalosaurinae and ...
Duriavenator is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in what is now England during the Middle Jurassic, about 168 million years ago. In 1882, upper and lower jaw bones of a dinosaur were collected near Sherborne in Dorset, and Richard Owen considered the fossils to belong to the species Megalosaurus bucklandii, the first named non-bird dinosaur.
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2024 marks 200 years since the first dinosaur, Megalosaurus, was formally identified. Here’s what we’ve learned about the prehistoric creatures over the past two centuries.
Megalosauroidea (meaning 'great/big lizard forms') is a superfamily (or clade) of tetanuran theropod dinosaurs that lived from the Middle Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous period. The group is defined as Megalosaurus bucklandii and all taxa sharing a more recent common ancestor with it than with Allosaurus fragilis or Passer domesticus. [1]
Megalosaurus facts. Its name means "giant lizard" It lived in England between 166.1 and 168.3 million years ago. It was 20ft (6m) long. Charles Dickens imagined meeting a megalosaurus on the muddy ...
Altispinax altispinax (Paul, 1988) Rauhut, 2000. Altispinax ( / ˌæltɪˈspaɪnæks /; "with high spines") is a genus of large predatory theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous period ( Valanginian, 140 to 133 million years ago) of what is now the Wadhurst Clay Formation of East Sussex, England .