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Torvosaurus
Taxonomy
Torvosaurus was named by Galton and Jensen (1979). It is the type genus of Torvosauroidea.
It was assigned to Carnosauria by Molnar et al. (1990); to Megalosauroidea by Holtz (1995); to Megalosaurinidae by Holtz (1996); to Tetanurae by Holtz (1994), Holtz (2000), Carrano et al. (2002); to Spinosauroidea by Rauhut (2003), Yates (2005); to Torvosauridae by Kurzanov (1989), Sereno et al. (1994), Molnar et al. (1996), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Sereno et al. (1998), Mateus et al. (2006); to Megalosaurinae by Holtz et al. (2004), Carrano et al. (2012), Rauhut et al. (2016), Rauhut et al. (2018); and to Megalosauridae by Galton and Jensen (1979), McIntosh (1981), Russell (1984), Carroll (1988), Miller et al. (1991), Bakker et al. (1992), Novas (1992), Currie and Zhao (1994), Chure et al. (2006), Benson and Barrett (2009), Hanson and Makovicky (2013), Hendrickx and Mateus (2014), Hendrickx and Mateus (2014), Cobos et al. (2014), Brougham et al. (2019).
It was assigned to Carnosauria by Molnar et al. (1990); to Megalosauroidea by Holtz (1995); to Megalosaurinidae by Holtz (1996); to Tetanurae by Holtz (1994), Holtz (2000), Carrano et al. (2002); to Spinosauroidea by Rauhut (2003), Yates (2005); to Torvosauridae by Kurzanov (1989), Sereno et al. (1994), Molnar et al. (1996), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Sereno et al. (1998), Mateus et al. (2006); to Megalosaurinae by Holtz et al. (2004), Carrano et al. (2012), Rauhut et al. (2016), Rauhut et al. (2018); and to Megalosauridae by Galton and Jensen (1979), McIntosh (1981), Russell (1984), Carroll (1988), Miller et al. (1991), Bakker et al. (1992), Novas (1992), Currie and Zhao (1994), Chure et al. (2006), Benson and Barrett (2009), Hanson and Makovicky (2013), Hendrickx and Mateus (2014), Hendrickx and Mateus (2014), Cobos et al. (2014), Brougham et al. (2019).