Subfamily
Valid Extinct

Allosaurinae

Paul 1988

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
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PBDB occurrences
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Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Allosaurinae
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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
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Allosaurinae Subfamily
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Bibliography
Original description
G. S. Paul. 1988. The small predatory dinosaurs of the mid-Mesozoic: the horned theropods of the Morrison and Great Oolite - Ornitholestes and Proceratosaurus - and the sickle-claw theropods of the Cloverly, Djadokhta and Judith River - Deinonychus, Velociraptor and Saurornitholestes. Hunteria 2(4):1-9