cœlurosaurn.adj.
/sɪˈljʊərəsɔː/ Any of a group of small, slenderly built theropod dinosaurs with relatively long forelimbs. Also attributive or as adj.
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cœlurosaur1958
cœlurosaurian1969
1958 Amer. Mus. Novitates No. 1901. 1 (heading) Coelurosaur bone casts from the Connecticut Valley Triassic.
1958 Amer. Mus. Novitates No. 1901. 3. Ammosaurus, commonly designated as a coelurosaur, is probably a prosauropod.
1962 E. H. Colbert Dinosaurs iv. 76 The emphasis among coelurosaurs on lightness in weight, agility of movement, and adaptations for the pursuit of small animals enabled these little dinosaurs to continue through the Mesozoic era.
1970 Nature 11 Apr. 109/1 Theropods..are usually divided into massive carnosaurs..and smaller slenderly built coelurosaurs. Deinonychus has some carnosaur characters,..some coelurosaur ones..and some unique to itself.
1983 Sci. Amer. Jan. 73/2 Beside the nest was the fossilized skeleton of a predatory coelurosaur—a small bipedal carnivorous dinosaur.
Derivatives
cœˌluroˈsaurian adj.
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the world > animals > reptiles > extinct reptiles and dinosaurs > [adjective] > of order Sauria > relating to Saurischia > of or belonging to Theropoda > of or relating to coelurosaur
cœlurosaur1958
cœlurosaurian1969
1969 Arnoldia (Rhodesia) 4 No. 28. 1 (heading) A new coelurosaurian dinosaur from the Forest Sandstone of Rhodesia.
1985 Palaeontol. 28 413 Most of these features were already present in the coelurosaurian dinosaur ancestors of birds.
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