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Carcharodontosauria

Benson et al. 2010

Les Allosauroidea forment une super-famille ou clade fossile de dinosaures théropodes qui comprend quatre familles : les Metriacanthosauridae, les Allosauridae, les Carcharodontosauridae et les Neovenatoridae.

Plage temporelle
Trias
Jurassique
Crétacé
Paléogène
Néogène
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Occurrences PBDB
21
Groupe
Dinosaures
Carnivore Vivant au sol, solitaire Terrestre
Carcharodontosauria
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A collage of four carnosaurs: Yangchuanosaurus (or possibly Sinraptor), Acrocanthosaurus, Concavenator, and Allosaurus © User:Phreakster 1998 VSPYCC[1] User:FunkMonk User:Sheep81 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
PBDB Wikipedia
Classification
Dinosauria Clade non classé
Theropoda Clade non classé
Neotheropoda Clade non classé
Averostra Clade non classé
Tetanurae Clade non classé
Allosauroidea Superfamille
Carcharodontosauria Clade non classé
Sites de découverte 21 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
🇺🇸 États-Unis
5
🇧🇷 Brésil
4
🇺🇿 Ouzbékistan
3
🇵🇹 Portugal
2
🇪🇸 Espagne
2
🇦🇺 Australie
2
🇹🇿 Tanzanie
1
🇨🇳 Chine
1
🇹🇭 Thaïlande
1
Formations géologiques
Lewisville
4
Sergi
1
Praia da Amoreira-Porto Novo
1
Freixial
1
Pojuca
1
Blesa
1
Castrillo de la Reina
1
Distribution temporelle
Turonien (93.9–89.8 Ma)
3
Cénomanien (100.5–93.9 Ma)
4
Albien (113.2–100.5 Ma)
2
Aptien (121.4–113.2 Ma)
3
Barrémien (125.77–121.4 Ma)
2
Hauterivien (132.6–125.77 Ma)
2
Valanginien (137.05–132.6 Ma)
1
Tithonien (149.2–143.1 Ma)
1
Kimméridgien (154.8–149.2 Ma)
2
Aalénien (174.7–170.9 Ma)
1
Images 2
Bibliographie
Description originale
R. B. J. Benson, M. T. Carrano, and S. L. Brusatte. 2010. A new clade of archaic large-bodied predatory dinosaurs (Theropoda: Allosauroidea) that survived to the latest Mesozoic. Naturwissenschaften 97:71-78 DOI ↗
Bibliographie (13)
J. Kotevski, R. J. Duncan, and T. Ziegler, J. J. Bevitt, P. Vickers-Rich, T. H. Rich, A. R. Evans, S. F. Poropat. 2025. Evolutionary and paleobiogeographic implications of new carcharodontosaurian, megaraptorid, and unenlagiine theropod remains from the upper Lower Cretaceous of Victoria, southeast Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology DOI ↗
T. Oswald and C. Boisvert. 2025. “Here be dragons”: shed teeth potentially Indicate the presence of multiple unidentified allosauroids from the Early Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation of Utah. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 50(2):55–129 DOI ↗
K. L. N. Bandeira, B. A. Navarro, and R. V. Pêgas, N. S. Brilhante, A. S. Brum, L. G. de Souza, R. C. da Silva, V. Gallo. 2024. A reassessment of the historical fossil findings from Bahia State (Northeast Brazil) reveals a diversified dinosaur fauna in the Lower Cretaceous of South America. Historical Biology DOI ↗
C. R. Noto, D. C. D'Amore, and S. K. Drumheller, T. L. Adams. 2022. A newly recognized theropod assemblage from the Lewisville Formation (Woodbine Group; Cenomanian) and its implications for understanding Late Cretaceous Appalachian terrestrial ecosystems. PeerJ 10:e12782:1-47 DOI ↗
K. L. N. Bandeira, A. S. Brum, and R. V. Pêgas, L. G. de Souza, P. V. L. G. C. Pereira, A. E. P. Pinheiro. 2021. The first Jurassic theropod from the Sergi Formation, Jatobá Basin, Brazil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 93(suppl. 2):e20201557:-30 DOI ↗
K. Tanaka, O. U. O. Anvarov, and D. K. Zelenitsky, A., S. Ahmedshaev, Y. Kobayashi. 2021. A new carcharodontosaurian theropod dinosaur occupies apex predator niche in the early Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan. Royal Society Open Science 8(9):210923:1-10 DOI ↗
E. Malafaia, P. Mocho, and F. Escaso, F. Ortega. 2020. A new carcharodontosaurian theropod from the Lusitanian Basin: evidence of allosauroid sympatry in the European Late Jurassic. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 40(1):e1768106:1-8 DOI ↗
P.V.L.G.C. Pereira, T. B. Ribeiro, and S. L. Brusatte, C. R. d. A. Candeiro, T. d. S. Marinho, L. P. Bergqvist. 2020. Theropod (Dinosauria) diversity from the Açu Formation (mid-Cretaceous), Potiguar Basin, northeast Brazil. Cretaceous Research 114:104517:1-11 DOI ↗
D. Chokchaloemwong, S. Hattori, and E. Cuesta, P. Jintasakul, M. Shibata, Y. Azuma. 2019. A new carcharodontosaurian theropod (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Thailand. PLoS ONE 14(10):e0222489 DOI ↗
A. Alonso, J. M. Gasca, and P. Navarro-Lorbés, C. Rubio, J. I. Canudo. 2018. A new contribution to our knowledge of the large-bodied theropods from the Barremian of the Iberian Peninsula: the “Barranco del Hocino” site (Spain). Journal of Iberian Geology 44(1):7-23 DOI ↗
A. Alonso, J. I. Canudo, and F. Torcida Fernández-Baldor. 2016. Isolated theropod teeth associated with sauropod remains from El Oterillo II (Early Cretaceous) site of Salas de los Infantes (Burgos, Spain). VII Jornadas Internacionales sobre Paleontología de Dinosaurios y su Entorno, Libro de Resúmenes DOI ↗
J. Mo, F. Zhou, and G. Li, Z. Huang, C. Cao. 2014. A new Carcharodontosauria (Theropoda) from the Early Cretaceous of Guangxi, Southern China. Acta Geologica Sinica 88(4):1051-1059 DOI ↗
M. T. Carrano, R. B. J. Benson, and S. D. Sampson. 2012. The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10(2):211-300 DOI ↗