Definition of Megalosauroidea. Meaning of Megalosauroidea. Synonyms of Megalosauroidea

- Megalosauroidea (meaning 'great/big lizard forms') is a superfamily (or clade) of tetanuran theropod dinosaurs that lived from the Middle Jur****ic to...
- the Coelurosauria at the Neotetanurae/Avetheropoda node. Members of Megalosauroidea are believed to represent basal tetanurans, but recent discoveries...
- have revived Carnosauria as clade including both Allosauroidea and Megalosauroidea (which is sometimes recovered as paraphyletic with respect to Allosauroidea)...
- Monolophosaurus, together forming a clade belonging either to Megalosauroidea or outside of Megalosauroidea in the Tetanurae. In 2012, Matthew Carrano et al. found...
- monophyletic family of carnivorous theropod dinosaurs within the group Megalosauroidea. Appearing in the Middle Jur****ic, megalosaurids were among the first...
- coelurosaurs, including compsognathids, finds Sciurumimus back in Megalosauroidea. Sciurumimus is known from a single holotype fossil that is exceptionally...
- specialised again than the ceratosaurs. They are subdivided into the basal Megalosauroidea (alternately Spinosauroidea) and the more derived Avetheropoda. Megalosauridae...
- seen within Tetanurae. Their phylogenetic analysis found traditional Megalosauroidea to represent a basal grade of carnosaurs, paraphyletic with respect...
- †Noasaurinae (small carnivores) Tetanurae (stiff-tailed dinosaurs) †Megalosauroidea (early group of large carnivores) †Piatnitzkysauridae (small basal...
- Spinosauridae in the Megalosauroidea. Later, Benson et al. (2010) found the Chuandongocoelurus/Monolophosaurus clade to be outside of Megalosauroidea and Neotetanurae...