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Allosaurus europaeus
Taxonomy
Allosaurus europaeus was named by Mateus et al. (2006). Its type specimen is ML 415, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Praia de Vale Frades, which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian terrestrial horizon in the Lourinhã Formation of Portugal.
It was synonymized subjectively with Allosaurus fragilis by Malafaia et al. (2007) and Malafaia et al. (2008); it was considered a nomen dubium by Malafaia et al. (2010).
It was synonymized subjectively with Allosaurus fragilis by Malafaia et al. (2007) and Malafaia et al. (2008); it was considered a nomen dubium by Malafaia et al. (2010).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2006 | Allosaurus europaeus Mateus p. 225 |
| 2006 | Allosaurus europaeus Mateus et al. pp. 127-128 fig. 7 |
| 2009 | Allosaurus europaeus Ortega et al. p. 51 |
| 2010 | Allosaurus europaeus Mateus and Milàn p. 253 |
| 2012 | Allosaurus europaeus Carrano et al. p. 223 |
| 2014 | Allosaurus europaeus Cobos et al. p. 39 |
| 2014 | Allosaurus europaeus Dalman p. 173 |
| 2019 | Allosaurus europaeus Malafaia et al. p. 170 |
| 2020 | Allosaurus europaeus Malafaia et al. p. 6 |
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†Allosaurus europaeus Mateus et al. 2006
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| O. Mateus et al. 2006 | Like other species of Allosaurus except for: jugal participation in the antorbital fenestra; maxilla forked posteriorly; truncated ventroposterior process of the maxilla; nasal with two pneumatic foramina (the anterior foramen twice the size of the posterior); posteroventral projection of the jugal more than twice the posterodorsal projection; large anterior surangular foramen; no lacrimal-maxillary contact; squamosal contacts the quadratojugal by a sigmoidal suture; squamosal projects ventrally into laterotemporal fenestra; lacrimal horn narrow in lateral view; large ventral projection of postorbital; rugose dorsal rim of the nasal; the occipital condyles above the squamosal-quadratojugal contact; the anterior tip of quadratojugal is anterior to the laterotemporal fenestra; the lateral lamina of lacrimal is subtle; palatine contacts the pterygoid dorsoposteventral tip of the ostorbital reaches the lower rim of the orbit. |
Measurements
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| References: Peczkis 1995, Marsh 1875 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to the top of the Early/Lower Tithonian or 155.70000 to 145.00000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Early/Lower Tithonian | Portugal (Centro) | Allosaurus europaeus (type locality: 138442) Allosaurus fragilis (38680) |