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Allosauridae (allosaurid)
Taxonomy
Allosauridae was named by Marsh (1878).
It was synonymized subjectively with Megalosauridae by Hay (1902) and Romer (1956); it was synonymized subjectively with Megalosaurinidae by Maleev (1968).
It was assigned to Dinosauria by Marsh (1878) and Marsh (1879); to Carnosauria by Huene (1933); to Carnosauria by Kuhn (1946); to Megalosauroidea by Kuhn (1966); to Dinoaves by Bakker (1986); to Theropoda by Marsh (1881), Galton (1977) and Carroll (1988); to Allosauria by Paul (1988); to Carnosauria by Molnar et al. (1990); to Tyrannosauroidea by Bonaparte et al. (1990); to Theropoda by Molnar (1992); to Avetheropoda by Holtz (1994); to Carnosauria by Stromer (1934), Huene (1948), Huene (1959), Colbert and Russell (1969), Barsbold (1983), Russell (1984), Bonaparte (1986), Kurzanov (1989), Dong (1992) and Coria and Currie (2006); to Theropoda by Thulborn (1984) and Chure et al. (2006); to Allosauroidea by Sereno et al. (1994), Currie and Zhao (1994), Hutt et al. (1996), Holtz (1996), Hutchinson and Padian (1997), Padian and Hutchinson (1997), Sereno (1998), Holtz (2000), Currie and Carpenter (2000), Holtz et al. (2004), Mateus et al. (2006) and Malafaia et al. (2007); and to Allosauria by Carrano et al. (2012) and Chure and Loewen (2020).
It was synonymized subjectively with Megalosauridae by Hay (1902) and Romer (1956); it was synonymized subjectively with Megalosaurinidae by Maleev (1968).
It was assigned to Dinosauria by Marsh (1878) and Marsh (1879); to Carnosauria by Huene (1933); to Carnosauria by Kuhn (1946); to Megalosauroidea by Kuhn (1966); to Dinoaves by Bakker (1986); to Theropoda by Marsh (1881), Galton (1977) and Carroll (1988); to Allosauria by Paul (1988); to Carnosauria by Molnar et al. (1990); to Tyrannosauroidea by Bonaparte et al. (1990); to Theropoda by Molnar (1992); to Avetheropoda by Holtz (1994); to Carnosauria by Stromer (1934), Huene (1948), Huene (1959), Colbert and Russell (1969), Barsbold (1983), Russell (1984), Bonaparte (1986), Kurzanov (1989), Dong (1992) and Coria and Currie (2006); to Theropoda by Thulborn (1984) and Chure et al. (2006); to Allosauroidea by Sereno et al. (1994), Currie and Zhao (1994), Hutt et al. (1996), Holtz (1996), Hutchinson and Padian (1997), Padian and Hutchinson (1997), Sereno (1998), Holtz (2000), Currie and Carpenter (2000), Holtz et al. (2004), Mateus et al. (2006) and Malafaia et al. (2007); and to Allosauria by Carrano et al. (2012) and Chure and Loewen (2020).
Subtaxa
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1878 | Allosauridae Marsh |
1879 | Allosauridae Marsh p. 89 |
1881 | Allosauridae Marsh |
1933 | Allosauridae Huene p. 68 |
1934 | Antrodemidae Stromer |
1934 | Allosauridae Stromer p. 80 |
1946 | Allosauridae Kuhn p. 65 |
1948 | Allosauridae Huene p. 90 |
1950 | Antrodemidae Stovall and Langston, Jr. p. 699 |
1959 | Allosauridae Huene p. 121 |
1966 | Allosauridae Kuhn p. 96 |
1969 | Allosauridae Colbert and Russell p. 45 |
1977 | Allosauridae Galton p. 230 |
1983 | Allosauridae Barsbold p. 95 |
1984 | Allosauridae Russell p. 28 |
1984 | Allosauridae Thulborn p. 133 |
1986 | Allosauridae Bakker p. 460 |
1986 | Allosauridae Bonaparte |
1988 | Allosauridae Carroll |
1988 | Allosauridae Paul p. 302 |
1989 | Allosauridae Kurzanov p. 4 |
1990 | Allosauridae Bonaparte et al. p. 40 |
1990 | Allosauridae Molnar et al. p. 189 |
1992 | Allosauridae Dong p. 164 |
1992 | Allosauridae Molnar p. 265 |
1994 | Allosauridae Currie and Zhao p. 2038 |
1994 | Allosauridae Holtz |
1994 | Allosauridae Sereno et al. p. 268 fig. 3 |
1996 | Allosauridae Holtz, Jr. p. 42A |
1996 | Allosauridae Hutt et al. p. 638 |
1997 | Allosauridae Hutchinson and Padian p. 96 |
1997 | Allosauridae Padian and Hutchinson p. 6 |
1998 | Allosauridae Sereno p. 64 |
2000 | Allosauridae Currie and Carpenter p. 210 |
2000 | Allosauridae Holtz, Jr. p. 21 fig. 5 |
2004 | Allosauridae Holtz, Jr. et al. p. 74 |
2006 | Allosauridae Chure et al. p. 236 |
2006 | Allosauridae Coria and Currie p. 108 fig. 35 |
2006 | Allosauridae Mateus et al. p. 127 |
2007 | Allosauridae Malafaia et al. p. 258 |
2012 | Allosauridae Carrano et al. p. 248 fig. 7 |
2020 | Allosauridae Chure and Loewen p. 8 |
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Fm. †Allosauridae Marsh 1878 [allosaurid]
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Invalid names: Allosaurinae Paul 1988 [empty], Antrodemidae Stromer 1934 [synonym], Ornitholestinae Paul 1988 [empty]
Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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F. v. Huene 1948 | Large preorbit and small propreorbit; narrow infratemporal fossa; boss on prefrontal; 9 short opisthocoelous cervicals; pleurocoela in the presacrals; dermal excrescences on dorsal neural spines; from middle of tail backwards no postzygapophyses; 2 small processes in front of haemapophysial facet; manus with three fingers; in foot 3 large middle toes. Upper Jurassic to Upper Cretaceous. |
Measurements
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Reference: Marsh 1875 |
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Bajocian to the top of the Early/Lower Barremian or 171.60000 to 125.45000 Ma
Collections (11 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Early/Lower Bajocian - Early/Lower Bathonian | Mexico (Oaxaca) | Carnosauria indet. (36267) | |
Oxfordian | Chile (Tarapaca) | Allosauridae indet. (170681) | |
Middle Oxfordian - Late/Upper Oxfordian | Switzerland (Baselland) | Megalosaurus sp. (55219) | |
Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | USA (Wyoming) | Allosauridae indet. (55320) | |
Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | USA (New Mexico) | Allosauridae indet. (22717) | |
Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | Spain (Teruel) | Allosauridae indet. (85291) | |
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | USA (Oklahoma) | Allosaurus sp. (49597) Saurophaganax maximus (49338) | |
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | Spain (Aragón) | Theropoda indet. (68019) | |
Late/Upper Berriasian | Germany (Niedersachsen) | Allosauridae indet. (53916) | |
Early/Lower Barremian | Spain (Aragón) | Megalosauridae indet. (68504) |