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Megalosauroidea (meaning 'great/big
lizard forms') is a
superfamily (or clade) of
tetanuran theropod dinosaurs that
lived from the
Middle Jur****ic to the...
- The
Tahora Formation is a Late
Cretaceous geologic formation that
outcrops in
northeastern New
Zealand near Napier. It is
Haumurian in age
according to...
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emerged during the
Middle Jur****ic, (including cetiosaurs, brachiosaurs,
megalosaurs and
primitive ornithopods).
Descendants of the therapsids, the cynodonts...
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commonly thought to be
descendants of
earlier large theropods such as
megalosaurs and carnosaurs,
although more
recently they were
reclassified with the...
- were no
fewer than four
distinct lineages of theropods—ceratosaurs,
megalosaurs, allosaurs, and coelurosaurs—preying on the
abundance of
small and large...
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Early Cretaceous was
dominated by more
basal tetanurans, such as the
megalosaurs and allosaurs, with
tyrannosaurids themselves only
taking over after...
- birds.
Initial cladistics studies supported the
arrangement of
primitive megalosaurs as
serial outgroups to a
clade of allosaurids,
followed by the Coelurosauria...
- Africa.
Afrovenator represents the only
properly identified Gondwanan megalosaur, with
proposed material of the
group present in the Late Jur****ic on Tacuarembó...
- (about 160
million years old), for example,
because neanderthals and
megalosaurs lived during different geological periods,
separated by
millions of years...
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phylogeny focussing on
basal tetanurans, and its
implications for
European '
megalosaurs' and
Middle Jur****ic
dinosaur endemism.
Journal of
Vertebrate Paleontology...
