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Megalosauroidea
Extinct superfamily of Dinosaurs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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] Members of the group include Spinosaurus, Megalosaurus, and Torvosaurus. They are possibly paraphyletic in nature with respect to Allosauroidea.
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Torvosaurus skeletal mount, Museum of Ancient Life | |
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Spinosaurus skeletal mount, National Geographic Museum | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Clade: | †Carnosauria (?) |
Superfamily: | †Megalosauroidea Huxley, 1889 |
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†Megalosaurus bucklandii Mantell, 1827 | |
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