Family
Valid Extinct

Allosauridae

allosaurid
Marsh 1878

Allosauridae is an extinct family of medium to large bipedal, carnivorous allosauroid theropod dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic. Allosauridae is a fairly old taxonomic group, having been first named by the American paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh in 1878.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
14
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Allosauridae
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Mounted skeleton of Allosaurus fragilis, on display at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA © WehaveaTrex · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Theropoda Unranked clade
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Neotheropoda Unranked clade
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Averostra Unranked clade
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Tetanurae Unranked clade
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Allosauroidea Superfamily
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Allosauria Unranked clade
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Allosauridae Family
Fossil sites 14 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇺🇸 United States
6
🇪🇸 Spain
3
🇲🇽 Mexico
1
🇷🇺 Russia
1
🇨🇭 Switzerland
1
🇨🇱 Chile
1
🇩🇪 Germany
1
Geological formations
Morrison
6
Villar del Arzobispo
2
Ukureyskaya
1
Vellerat
1
Chacarilla
1
Bückeberg
1
El Castellar
1
Temporal distribution
Barremian (125.77–121.4 Ma)
1
Berriasian (143.1–137.05 Ma)
1
Tithonian (149.2–143.1 Ma)
7
Oxfordian (161.5–154.8 Ma)
3
Bathonian (168.2–165.3 Ma)
2
Synonyms (1)
Antrodemidae subjective synonym of Allosauridae
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
O. C. Marsh. 1878. Notice of new dinosaurian reptiles. American Journal of Science and Arts 15:241-244 DOI ↗
Bibliography (13)
D. R. Richmond, T. C. Hunt, and R. L. Cifelli. 2020. Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Morrison Formation in the western panhandle of Oklahoma with reference to the historical Stovall dinosaur quarries. Journal of Geology 128:477-515 DOI ↗
A. S. S. Barros. 2018. Upper Jurassic Dinosaur Bonebeds at Ten Sleep, Wyoming: Stratigraphy, Preliminary Results and Field Reports of 2016 and 2017.
S. M. Sinitsa. 2016. Jurassic dinosaurs of Transbaikalia and prospects of searching for them in Mongolia. Paleontological Journal 50(12):1401-1411 DOI ↗
F. Gascó, A. Cobos, and R. Royo-Torres, L. Mampel, L. Alcalá. 2012. Theropod teeth diversity from the Villar del Arzobispo Formation (Tithonian–Berriasian) at Riodeva (Teruel, Spain). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments DOI ↗
D. Marty and C. A. Meyer. 2012. From sauropods to cycads—the Late Jurassic terrestrial record of the Swiss Jura Mountains. Centenary Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft. Programme, Abstracts, and Field Guides (F. Witzmann & M. Aberhan, eds). Terra Nostra 2012(3):119-120
I. Ferrusquía-Villafranca, V. M. Bravo-Cuevas, and E. Jiménez-Hidalgo. 2007. The Xochixtlapilco dinosaur ichnofauna, Middle Jurassic of Oaxaca, southeastern Mexico: description and paleontologic significance. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 515:1-40 DOI ↗
D. S. Jennings and S. T. Hasiotis. 2006. Taphonomic analysis of a dinosaur feeding site using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Morrison Formation, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA. Palaios 21:480-492 DOI ↗
J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca, J. I. Canudo, and P. Infante. 2005. Presencia de un posible alosáurido (Dinosauria: Theropoda) en el Cretácico Inferior (Barremiense inferior) de La Maca 3 (Galve, Teruel) [Presence of a possible allosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) in the Lower Cretaceous (lower Barremian) of La Maca 3 (Galve, Teruel)]. In E. Bernáldez, E. Mayoral, & A. Guerreiro dos Santos (eds.), XXI Jornadas de la Sociedad Española de Paleontología. Gestión e Investigación de la Paleontología en el Siglo XXI, Sevilla
O. Wings, A. Broschinski, and N. Knotschke. 2005. New theropod and ornithopod dinosaur trackways from the Berriasian of Münchehagen (Lower Saxony, Germany). Current Research in Vertebrate Palaeontolgy. 3rd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists (EAVP). Kaupia 14:105
A. B. Heckert, K. E. Zeigler, and S. G. Lucas, J. A. Spielmann, P. M. Hester, R. E. Peterson, R. E. Peterson, N. V. D.'Andrea. 2003. Geology and paleontology of the Upper Jurassic (Morrison Formation: Brushy Basin Member) Peterson Quarry, Central New Mexico. New Mexico Geological Society, 54th Field Conference, Geology of the Zuni Plateau. New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook 54:315-324 DOI ↗
T. E. Williamson and D. J. Chure. 1996. A large allosaurid from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation (Brushy Basin Member), west-central New Mexico. The Continental Jurassic. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 60:73-79
D. J. Chure. 1995. A reassessment of the gigantic theropod Saurophagus maximus from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Oklahoma, USA. A. Sun and Y. Wang (eds.), Sixth Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota, Short Papers, China Ocean Press, Beijing
P. Salinas, L. G. Marshall, and P. Sepúlveda. 1991. Vertebrados continentales del Paleozoico y Mesozoico de Chile [Continental vertebrates of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic of Chile]. Actas del VI Congreso Geológicao Chileno, Viña del Mar