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)...
- skull. However, some propose that this group (which is known as the Megalosauroidea) is paraphyletic and that spinosaurs represent either the most basal...
- 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...
- Monolophosaurus, together forming a clade belonging either to Megalosauroidea or outside of Megalosauroidea in the Tetanurae. In 2012, Matthew Carrano et al. found...
- seen within Tetanurae. Their phylogenetic analysis found traditional Megalosauroidea to represent a basal grade of carnosaurs, paraphyletic with respect...
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- †Noasaurinae (small carnivores) Tetanurae (stiff-tailed dinosaurs) †Megalosauroidea (early group of large carnivores) †Piatnitzkysauridae (small basal...