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Allosauria
Taxonomy
Allosauria was named by Paul (1988). It is not extant.
It was reranked as the unranked clade Allosauria by Carrano et al. (2012) and Chure and Loewen (2020).
It was assigned to Avetheropoda by Paul (1988); to Allosauroidea by Carrano et al. (2012); and to Allosaurioidea by Chure and Loewen (2020).
It was reranked as the unranked clade Allosauria by Carrano et al. (2012) and Chure and Loewen (2020).
It was assigned to Avetheropoda by Paul (1988); to Allosauroidea by Carrano et al. (2012); and to Allosaurioidea by Chure and Loewen (2020).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1988 | Allosauria Paul p. 301 |
| 2012 | Allosauria Carrano et al. p. 248 fig. 7 |
| 2020 | Allosauria Chure and Loewen p. 8 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Unr. †Allosauria Paul 1988
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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
No diagnoses are available
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 (New Mexico) | Allosauridae indet. (22717) | |
| Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | Spain (Teruel) | Allosauridae indet. (85291) | |
| Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | USA (Wyoming) | Allosauridae indet. (55320) | |
| Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | Spain (Aragón) | Theropoda indet. (68019) | |
| Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | USA (Oklahoma) | Allosaurus sp. (49597) Saurophaganax maximus (49338) | |
| Late/Upper Berriasian | Germany (Niedersachsen) | Allosauridae indet. (53916) | |
| Early/Lower Barremian | Spain (Aragón) | Megalosauridae indet. (68504) |