Allosaurus Marsh 1877 (allosauroid)

Reptilia - Theropoda

Synonyms: Antrodemus Leidy 1873, Antrodesmus Leidy 1873, Apatodon Marsh 1877, Creosaurus Marsh 1878, Epanterias Cope 1878, Epantherias Cope 1878, Labrosaurus Marsh 1879, Saurophagus Ray 1941

Full reference: O. C. Marsh. 1877. Notice of new dinosaurian reptiles from the Jurassic formation. American Journal of Science and Arts 14:514-516

Parent taxon: Allosauroidea according to J. I. Canale et al. 2013

See also Bakker et al. 1992, Bell 2010, Bonaparte 1978, Bonaparte 1991, Bonaparte et al. 1990, Brusatte and Sereno 2007, Buscalioni and Sanz 1984, Carrano et al. 2012, Carrano et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Casanovas et al. 1987, Chabli 1986, Chure 1995, Chure et al. 2006, Chure and Loewen 2020, Cobos et al. 2014, Colbert and Russell 1969, Cope 1878, Cope 1887, Coria and Currie 2006, Currie 1997, Currie and Carpenter 2000, Dalman 2014, Dodson 1997, Dollo 1884, Dong et al. 1978, Gadow 1897, Gadow 1898, Gadow 1901, Galton 1977, Gauthier 1986, Gilmore 1920, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hendrickx and Mateus 2014, Holtz 1994, Holtz 2000, Holtz et al. 2004, Huene 1908, Huene 1909, Huene 1923, Huene 1926, Huene 1958, Hutchinson and Padian 1997, Hutt et al. 1996, Janensch 1920, Joleaud 1922, Knoll et al. 1999, Kuhn 1939, Kurzanov 1989, Leidy 1873, Lisak 1980, Lull 1904, Lull 1911, Lull 1911, Lull 1924, Madsen 1976, Madsen and Miller 1979, Malafaia et al. 2007, Maleev 1968, Mansel-Pleydell 1902, Marsh 1877, Marsh 1879, Marsh 1882, Marsh 1884, Marsh 1884, Marsh 1885, Marsh 1895, Marsh 1896, Mateus and Milàn 2010, Mateus et al. 2006, Matthew and Brown 1922, McIntosh 1981, Miller et al. 1991, Molnar 1992, Molnar et al. 1981, Molnar et al. 1990, Mook 1916, Nopcsa 1901, Nopcsa 1928, Novas 1992, Olshevsky 1991, Osborn and Mook 1919, Osborn and Mook 1919, Osmólska 1996, Padian and Hutchinson 1997, Paton 1975, Paul 1988, Paul 1988, Pérez-Moreno et al. 1994, Piveteau 1923, Quenstedt 1882, Rauhut 2003, Ray 1941, Romer 1956, Romer 1966, Russell 1984, Russell and Dong 1994, Santafé et al. 1982, Sauvage 1880, Sauvage 1882, Sereno 1997, Sereno 1998, Sereno et al. 1996, Sereno et al. 1994, Smith 1998, Smith 2007, Smith et al. 2008, Steel 1970, Stromer 1915, Stromer 1931, Stromer 1934, Stromer 1934, Swinton 1970, Tatarinov 1964, Thulborn 1984, Tornier 1913, Untermann and Untermann 1954, Vetter 1884, von Zittel 1911, Walker 1964, Welles 1972, Welles 1984, Williston 1878, Williston 1905, Yates 2005 and Zittel 1890

Sister taxa: Allosauria, Asfaltovenator, Carcharodontosauria, Carcharodontosauridae, Metriacanthosauridae, Monolophosaurus, Neovenatoridae

Subtaxa: Allosaurus amplus Allosaurus europaeus Allosaurus fragilis Allosaurus jimmadseni Allosaurus lucasi Labrosaurus sulcatus

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Type: Allosaurus fragilis

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of France (2 collections), Japan (2), the United Kingdom (1)

• Jurassic of Germany (2), Portugal (3), United States (125: Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming)

Total: 135 collections including 145 occurrences

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