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04 June 2026 EN everythingdinosaur

Tracking Down an Elusive Allosaurus Species

bone Tanzania Tendaguru fossil Allosauria formation

Allosaurus has become a bit of a taxonomic waste basket.  This term relates to fossil material from theropods being assigned to the genus.  However, some of the evidence for assigning the material is tentative.  For example, theropod bones from southeastern Tanzania (Tendaguru Formation) had been assigned to an allosaur species named Allosaurus tendagurensis.  In 1925,

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