Etymology

allosauroid

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Today it means: Any member of a superfamily clade of dinosaurs including the sinoraptorids, carcharodontosaurids and allosaurids. Full definition →

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From the clade name Allosauroidea, first proposed by Currie & Zhao in 1993.

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