genus, the only certain remains of Megalosaurus come from Oxfordshire and date to the late Middle Jurassic. Megalosaurus was, in 1824, the first genus of...
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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...
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Early Cretaceous of England which had been referred to Megalosaurus in the literature to "Megalosaurus" dunkeri, which thus generally came to be understood...
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Magnosaurus (redirect from Megalosaurus nethercombensis)
has often been confused with or included in Megalosaurus. In 1923, Friedrich von Huene named Megalosaurus nethercombensis from a partial skeleton (OUM...
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Erectopus (redirect from Megalosaurus superbus)
type species is E. superbus, which was initially known as a species of Megalosaurus. The holotype, specimen MNHN 2001-4, was discovered during the early...
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Carcharodontosaurus (redirect from Megalosaurus saharicus)
Algeria by French paleontologists Charles Depéret and Justin Savornin as Megalosaurus saharicus. A partial skeleton was collected by crews of German paleontologist...
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Duriavenator (redirect from Megalosaurus hesperis)
Megalosaurus, M. hesperis; the specific name means 'the West' or 'western'. Later researchers questioned whether the species belonged to Megalosaurus...
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Dilophosaurus (redirect from Megalosaurus wetherilli)
complete specimen became the holotype of a new species in the genus Megalosaurus, named M. wetherilli by Samuel P. Welles in 1954. Welles found a larger...
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genus for Megalosaurus dunkeri. He used the three vertebrae as the basis for this genus, noting that they were different from Megalosaurus, and created...
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Metriacanthosaurus (redirect from Megalosaurus parkeri)
bone, and part of a backbone, assigning it to a new species of Megalosaurus: Megalosaurus parkeri. The specific name honours W. Parker who in the nineteenth...
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Ceratosaurus (redirect from Megalosaurus nasicornis)
species to Megalosaurus, not to Ceratosaurus. Therefore, this name might be a simple copying error.: 37 Rauhut, in 2011, showed that Megalosaurus ingens...
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Betasuchus (redirect from Megalosaurus bredai)
Netherlands near Maastricht, and originally described as a new species of Megalosaurus in 1883 by Harry Seeley: M. bredai, honouring the late Dutch biologist...
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nascent nature of the science in the 19th century, with the Iguanodon and Megalosaurus models being particularly singled out. Following the closure of the Great...
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Proceratosaurus (redirect from Megalosaurus bradleyi)
London. Woodward made the skull the holotype specimen of a new species of Megalosaurus (a genus named in 1824), M. bradleyi, in honour of its discoverer. At...
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Neovenator (redirect from Megalosaurus salerii)
elements. In 1990 the material, then considered a possible new species of Megalosaurus, was provisionally described by Hutt. Having mistaken the ischium of...
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Majungasaurus (redirect from Megalosaurus crenatissimus)
first being found in 1896 (although it was thought to be a species of Megalosaurus) and being named in 1955. Known from several well-preserved skulls and...
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Dryptosaurus (redirect from Megalosaurus aquilunguis)
(1868), and Lydekker (1888) noted obvious similarities with the genus Megalosaurus, which was known at the time from remains discovered in southeastern...
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Megalosaurus bucklandii, was first named and described in 1824 by William Buckland after multiple finds in Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, UK. Megalosaurus...
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Indosaurus (redirect from Megalosaurus matleyi)
and the specific name honours Matley. This species now also includes Megalosaurus matleyi; confusingly, the dubious tooth taxon Orthogoniosaurus shares...
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Antrodemus (redirect from Megalosaurus valens)
(Leidy, 1870) Leidy, 1873 Synonyms Poekilopleuron valens Leidy, 1870 Megalosaurus valens (Leidy, 1870) Nopcsa, 1901 Allosaurus valens (Leidy, 1870) Huene...
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William Buckland (section Megalosaurus)
Buckland wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur, which he named Megalosaurus. His work proved that Kirkdale Cave in North Yorkshire had been a prehistoric...
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earliest-discovered non-avian tetanuran is Megalosaurus. For a century after the description of Megalosaurus, most large carnivorous dinosaurs were serially...
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Streptospondylus (redirect from Megalosaurus cuvieri)
in 1867 naming a Laelaps gallicus and Friedrich von Huene in 1909 a Megalosaurus cuvieri. In 1964, Alick Donald Walker discovered Owen's mistake, referring...
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been suggested that Dinosauria be defined with respect to the MRCA of Megalosaurus and Iguanodon, because these were two of the three genera cited by Richard...
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or Megalosaurus. Condorraptor, Marshosaurus, and Piatnitzkysaurus were all placed in a clade by Benson in 2010 during a redescription of Megalosaurus. This...
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the earlier Megalosaurus within Megalosaurinae. However, Torvosauridae may be used as an alternative name for Megalosauridae if Megalosaurus is considered...
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List of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition monsters (redirect from Megalosaurus (Dungeons & Dragons))
Gorgosaurus, Iguanodon, Lambeosaurus, Mamenchisaurus, Massospondylus, Megalosaurus, Monoclonius, Mosasaurus, Nothosaurus, Ornitholestes, Pentaceratops,...
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case with most carnivorous dinosaurs at the time (Megalosauridae, like Megalosaurus, functioned as a sort of 'wastebin' taxon, where many unrelated species...
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takes great interest in nearby blue clay deposits. At night a ferocious Megalosaurus is about to break through the thorn bushes surrounding their camp; Roxton...
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at the same meeting at which William Buckland described the dinosaur Megalosaurus and the combination created a sensation in scientific circles. Conybeare's...
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