Hemiauchenia/sandbox
Temporal range:
Late Jurassic-Late Cretaceous
Kimmeridgian–Turonian
Skeleton of Acrocanthosaurus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Clade: Allosauria
Clade: Carcharodontosauria
Benson, Carrano and Brusatte, 2010
Families and genera

Carcharodontosauria is a clade of theropod dinosaurs, known from the Late Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous. They are considered to be members of Allosauroidea.

Taxonomy edit

The family Carcharodontosauridae was erected by Ernst Stromer in 1931.[1] The clade Carcharodontosauria was first erected by Benson, Carrano and Brusatte, 2010 to include Carcharodontosauridae, as well as the newly erected family Neovenatoridae, which included Neovenator as well as the newly erected clade Megaraptora. Carcharodontosauria is placed within clade Tetanurae as members of the group Allosauroidea.[2]

Many later studies have doubted the placement of Megaraptora within Carcharodontosauria, placing them within Coelurosauria instead.[3] The placement of several other supposed neovenatorids within Carcharodontosauria, such as Gualicho[4] and Siats[5] have also been questioned. Since the description of the group, several non-carcharodontosaurid or neovenatorid carchachodontosaurians have been recognised, including Lusovenator[6], Siamraptor[7] and Veterupristisaurus.[6]

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References edit

  1. ^ E. Stromer Wirbeltierreste der Baharije-Stufe (unterstes Cenoman). 10. Ein Skelett-Rest von Carcharodontosaurus nov. gen Abhandlungen Bayerische Akademie Wissenchafte Atheilung-naturwissenchaften Abteilung Neue Folge, 9 (1931), pp. 1-23
  2. ^ Benson, Roger B. J.; Carrano, Matthew T.; Brusatte, Stephen L. (2010-01). "A new clade of archaic large-bodied predatory dinosaurs (Theropoda: Allosauroidea) that survived to the latest Mesozoic". Naturwissenschaften. 97 (1): 71–78. doi:10.1007/s00114-009-0614-x. ISSN 0028-1042. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ Rolando, Alexis M. A.; Motta, Matias J.; Agnolín, Federico L.; Manabe, Makoto; Tsuihiji, Takanobu; Novas, Fernando E. (26 April 2022). "A large Megaraptoridae (Theropoda: Coelurosauria) from Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Patagonia, Argentina". Scientific Reports. 12 (1): Article number 6318. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-09272-z. PMC 9042913. PMID 35474310.
  4. ^ Porfiri JD, Juárez Valieri RD, Santos DD, Lamanna MC (March 2018). "A new megaraptoran theropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Bajo de la Carpa Formation of northwestern Patagonia". Cretaceous Research. 89: 302–319. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2018.03.014. S2CID 134117648.
  5. ^ Naish, Darren; Cau, Andrea (2022-07-07). "The osteology and affinities of Eotyrannus lengi , a tyrannosauroid theropod from the Wealden Supergroup of southern England". PeerJ. 10: e12727. doi:10.7717/peerj.12727. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 9271276. PMID 35821895.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: PMC format (link) CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  6. ^ a b Malafaia, Elisabete; Mocho, Pedro; Escaso, Fernando; Ortega, Francisco (2020-01-02). "A new carcharodontosaurian theropod from the Lusitanian Basin: evidence of allosauroid sympatry in the European Late Jurassic". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 40 (1): e1768106. doi:10.1080/02724634.2020.1768106. ISSN 0272-4634.
  7. ^ Chokchaloemwong, Duangsuda; Hattori, Soki; Cuesta, Elena; Jintasakul, Pratueng; Shibata, Masateru; Azuma, Yoichi (2019-10-09). Liu, Jun (ed.). "A new carcharodontosaurian theropod (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Thailand". PLOS ONE. 14 (10): e0222489. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0222489. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 6784982. PMID 31596853.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: PMC format (link) CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)