megalosaurianadj.n.

1842 R. Owen in Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1841 109 Further evidence of their Megalosaurian character must be obtained.

1844 D. T. Ansted Geol. I. 410 When first the Megalosaurian remains were described by Dr. Buckland.

1895 Philos. Trans. 1894 (Royal Soc.) B. 185 716 The lanceolate molar teeth are of Megalosaurian type.

1955 Advancem. Sci. 12 130/2 In 1913, the collection of Mr. James Parker came to the Oxford University Museum, a series of bones of great interest, and containing many Megalosaurian specimens.

1964 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 248 78 The teeth are of the type generally referred to as ‘megalosaurian’, that is, they are compressed, recurved and provided with small serrations .

1983 C. Ozick Cannibal Galaxy 69 She..exhausted the evidence about the cannibal galaxies, those megalosaurian colonies of primordial gases that devour smaller brother-galaxies.

1985 E. H. Colbert Wandering Lands & Animals (new ed.) vi. 163 Scelidosaurus, the earliest known stegosaurian, already well armored with protective scutes on the body, as a defense against its megalosaurian contemporaries.

1854 J. P. Muirhead Origin & Progress Mech. Inventions J. Watt I. Introd. p. clxxxv That gigantic specimen of a race of mechanical megalosaurians.

1895 J. K. Bangs House-boat on Styx xi. 148 If I'd kept them ten days longer they'd have eaten every blessed beast I had with me, and your Zoo wouldn't have had anything else but Megalosaurians.

1990 D. B. Weishampel et al. Dinosauria Index 725/2 Nuthetes as juvenile megalosaurian.