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Allosauridae (allosaurid)

Osteichthyes - Allosauridae

Taxonomy

Allosauridae was named by Marsh (1878).

It was synonymized subjectively with Megalosauridae by Hay (1902), Romer (1956); it was synonymized subjectively with Megalosaurinidae by Maleev (1968).

It was assigned to Dinosauria by Marsh (1878), Marsh (1879); to Carnosauria by Huene (1933); to Carnosauria by Kuhn (1946); to Megalosauroidea by Kuhn (1966); to Dinoaves by Bakker (1986); to Allosauria by Paul (1988); to Theropoda by Marsh (1881), Galton (1977), Carroll (1988); to Tyrannosauroidea by Bonaparte et al. (1990); to Carnosauria by Molnar et al. (1990); to Theropoda by Molnar (1992); to Avetheropoda by Holtz (1994); to Theropoda by Thulborn (1984), Chure et al. (2006); to Carnosauria by Stromer (1934), Huene (1948), Huene (1959), Colbert and Russell (1969), Barsbold (1983), Russell (1984), Bonaparte (1986), Kurzanov (1989), Dong (1992), Coria and Currie (2006); to Allosauroidea by Sereno et al. (1994), Currie and Zhao (1994), Hutt et al. (1996), Holtz (1996), Hutchinson and Padian (1997), Padian and Hutchinson (1997), Sereno (1998), Holtz (2000), Currie and Carpenter (2000), Holtz et al. (2004), Mateus et al. (2006), Malafaia et al. (2007); and to Allosauria by Carrano et al. (2012), Chure and Loewen (2020).

Subtaxa

Allosaurinae, Ornitholestinae, Saurophaganax

Entered

by M. Carrano on 2003-01-23; modified by M. Carrano on 2016-02-19

Synonyms

Antrodemidae was named by Stromer (1934). Its type is Antrodemus.

It was synonymized subjectively with Allosauridae by Kuhn (1966); it was synonymized subjectively with Megalosauridae by Walker (1964), Steel (1970).

It was assigned to Carnosauria by Stovall and Langston (1950).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1878	Allosauridae Marsh
1879	Allosauridae Marsh p. 89
1881	Allosauridae Marsh
1933	Allosauridae Huene p. 68
1934	Antrodemidae Stromer
1934	Allosauridae Stromer p. 80
1946	Allosauridae Kuhn p. 65
1948	Allosauridae Huene p. 90
1950	Antrodemidae Stovall and Langston, Jr. p. 699
1959	Allosauridae Huene p. 121
1966	Allosauridae Kuhn p. 96
1969	Allosauridae Colbert and Russell p. 45
1977	Allosauridae Galton p. 230
1983	Allosauridae Barsbold p. 95
1984	Allosauridae Russell p. 28
1984	Allosauridae Thulborn p. 133
1986	Allosauridae Bakker p. 460
1986	Allosauridae Bonaparte
1988	Allosauridae Carroll
1988	Allosauridae Paul p. 302
1989	Allosauridae Kurzanov p. 4
1990	Allosauridae Bonaparte et al. p. 40
1990	Allosauridae Molnar et al. p. 189
1992	Allosauridae Dong p. 164
1992	Allosauridae Molnar p. 265
1994	Allosauridae Currie and Zhao p. 2038
1994	Allosauridae Holtz
1994	Allosauridae Sereno et al. p. 268 fig. 3
1996	Allosauridae Holtz, Jr. p. 42A
1996	Allosauridae Hutt et al. p. 638
1997	Allosauridae Hutchinson and Padian p. 96
1997	Allosauridae Padian and Hutchinson p. 6
1998	Allosauridae Sereno p. 64
2000	Allosauridae Currie and Carpenter p. 210
2000	Allosauridae Holtz, Jr. p. 21 fig. 5
2004	Allosauridae Holtz, Jr. et al. p. 74
2006	Allosauridae Chure et al. p. 236
2006	Allosauridae Coria and Currie p. 108 fig. 35
2006	Allosauridae Mateus et al. p. 127
2007	Allosauridae Malafaia et al. p. 258
2012	Allosauridae Carrano et al. p. 248 fig. 7
2020	Allosauridae Chure and Loewen p. 8

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
class	Osteichthyes
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
subclass	Eureptilia	()

Rank	Name	Author
—	Romeriida
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
—	Theropoda	()
—	Neotheropoda
—	Averostra	Paul 2002
—	Tetanurae
superfamily	Allosauroidea
—	Allosauria	()
family	Allosauridae
family	Allosauridae

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.

Fm. †Allosauridae Marsh 1878 [allosaurid]

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G. †Saurophaganax Chure 1995

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†Saurophaganax maximus Chure 1995

Invalid names: Allosaurinae Paul 1988 [empty], Antrodemidae Stromer 1934 [synonym], Ornitholestinae Paul 1988 [empty]

Diagnosis

Reference	Diagnosis
F. v. Huene 1948	Large preorbit and small propreorbit; narrow infratemporal fossa; boss on prefrontal; 9 short opisthocoelous cervicals; pleurocoela in the presacrals; dermal excrescences on dorsal neural spines; from middle of tail backwards no postzygapophyses; 2 small processes in front of haemapophysial facet; manus with three fingers; in foot 3 large middle toes. Upper Jurassic to Upper Cretaceous.