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Megalosauria
Taxonomy
Megalosauria was named by Bonaparte (1850).
It was synonymized subjectively with Dinosaurii by Bonaparte (1850); it was reranked as the suborder Megalosauria by Seeley (1892), Osborn (1904); it was synonymized subjectively with Theropoda by Hay (1902); it was reranked as the superfamily Megalosauria by Lull (1915), Lull (1917); it was reranked as the unranked clade Megalosauria by Jaekel (1911), Carrano et al. (2012).
It was assigned to Archosauria by Baur (1891); to Praepubici by Jaekel (1911); to Theropoda by Lull (1915); to Theropoda by Osborn (1904), Lull (1912), Lull (1917); to Saurischia by Seeley (1892), Nopcsa (1923); and to Megalosauroidea by Carrano et al. (2012).
It was synonymized subjectively with Dinosaurii by Bonaparte (1850); it was reranked as the suborder Megalosauria by Seeley (1892), Osborn (1904); it was synonymized subjectively with Theropoda by Hay (1902); it was reranked as the superfamily Megalosauria by Lull (1915), Lull (1917); it was reranked as the unranked clade Megalosauria by Jaekel (1911), Carrano et al. (2012).
It was assigned to Archosauria by Baur (1891); to Praepubici by Jaekel (1911); to Theropoda by Lull (1915); to Theropoda by Osborn (1904), Lull (1912), Lull (1917); to Saurischia by Seeley (1892), Nopcsa (1923); and to Megalosauroidea by Carrano et al. (2012).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1850 | Megalosauria Bonaparte p. 1 |
| 1891 | Megalosauria Baur pp. 450-451 |
| 1892 | Megalosauria Seeley p. 188 |
| 1904 | Megalosauria Osborn p. 113 |
| 1911 | Megalosauria Jaekel p. 159 |
| 1912 | Megalosauria Lull p. 411 |
| 1915 | Megalosauria Lull p. 118 |
| 1917 | Megalosauria Lull p. 111 |
| 1923 | Megalosauria Nopcsa p. 126 |
| 2012 | Megalosauria Carrano et al. p. 248 fig. 7 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range: base of the Late/Upper Callovian to the top of the Barremian or 165.30000 to 121.40000 Ma
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Callovian - Early/Lower Oxfordian | France (Basse-Normandie) | Streptospondylus altdorfensis (49339) | |
| Late/Upper Berriasian | United Kingdom (England) | Dinosauria indet. (80536) Megalosauria indet. (165519 165520) | |
| Hauterivian - Barremian | Libya (Yafran) | Spinosaurus sp. (69791) |