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Ceratosaurus
Ceratosaurus Cer`a*to*sau"rus, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ke`ras a horn + ? lizard.] (Paleon.) A carnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the skull bears a bony horn core on the united nasal bones. See Illustration in Appendix.

Meaning of Ceratosaur from wikipedia

- Ceratosaurs are members of the clade Ceratosauria, a group of dinosaurs defined as all theropods sharing a more recent common ancestor with Ceratosaurus...
- Deltadromeus have considered it to be a ceratosaur, although different studies disagree on what kind of ceratosaur. One 2003 study suggested it was a member...
- later placed as a sister taxon to the clade containing dilophosaurids, ceratosaurs, and tetanurans. Shared tetanuran features include a ribcage indicating...
- originally included Coelophysoidea) †Ceratosauridae (ceratosaurs with large teeth) †Abelisauroidea (ceratosaurs exemplified by reduced arms and hands) †Abelisauridae...
- This timeline of ceratosaur research is a chronological listing of events in the history of paleontology focused on the ceratosaurs, a group of relatively...
- reinterpreted it as a metacarpal I or metatarsal I that possibly belongs to ceratosaur. In their 2023 overview, Averianov and Lopatin mention this specimen as...
- Tetanurae and Ceratosauria. While some used to consider coelophysoids and ceratosaurs to be within the same group due to features such as a fused hip, later...
- Godzilla's biology, with Kenneth Carpenter tentatively classifying it as a ceratosaur based on its skull shape, four-fingered hands, and dorsal scutes and paleontologist...
- Masiakasaurus was a member of the group Noasauridae, small predatory ceratosaurs found primarily in South America. Remains of Masiakasaurus have been...
- complicated taxonomic history. Having originally been described as a ceratosaur, most later studies have recovered it in various positions within the...