†unranked clade Carcharodontosauria Benson et al. 2010 (allosauroid)

Reptilia - Theropoda

Full reference: R. B. J. Benson, M. T. Carrano, and S. L. Brusatte. 2010. A new clade of archaic large-bodied predatory dinosaurs (Theropoda: Allosauroidea) that survived to the latest Mesozoic. Naturwissenschaften 97:71-78

Parent taxon: Allosauroidea according to M. T. Carrano 2024

See also Benson et al. 2010, Carrano et al. 2012 and Chokchaloemwong et al. 2019

Sister taxa: Allosauria, Allosaurus, Asfaltovenator, Carcharodontosauridae, Carcharodontosauriformes, Metriacanthosauridae, Monolophosaurus, Neovenatoridae

Subtaxa: Datanglong Lusovenator Siamraptor Ulughbegsaurus

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Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Australia (2 collections), Brazil (3), China (1), Spain (2), Thailand (1), United States (4: Texas), Uzbekistan (3)

• Jurassic of Brazil (1), Portugal (2), Tanzania (1)

Total: 20 collections each including a single occurrence

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