Unranked clade
Valid Extinct

Megalosauria

(Bonaparte 1850)

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
5
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Megalosauria
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Torvosaurus mounted cast, on display at the Museum of Ancient Life, Utah. © Etemenanki3 · 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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Megalosauroidea Superfamily
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Megalosauria Unranked clade
Fossil sites 5 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
3
🇫🇷 France
1
🇱🇾 Libya
1
Geological formations
Durlston
3
Cabao
1
Temporal distribution
Hauterivian (132.6–125.77 Ma)
1
Berriasian (143.1–137.05 Ma)
3
Callovian (165.3–161.5 Ma)
1
Images 7
Bibliography
Original description
C.-L. Bonaparte. 1850. Conspectus Systematum Herpetologiae et Amphibiologiae. Editio Altera Reformata. DOI ↗
Bibliography (3)
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 ↗
J. B. Delair and A. B. Lander. 1973. A short history of the discovery of reptilian footprints in the Purbeck Beds of Dorset, with notes on their stratigraphical distribution. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 94:17-20
H. v. Meyer. 1832. Palaeologica zur Geschichte der Erde und ihrer Geschöpfe; Verlag von Siegmund Schmerber, Franfurt am Main