megalosauridn.adj.
/ˌmɛɡ(ə)ləˈsɔːrɪd/, /ˌmɛɡl̩əˈsɔːrɪd/, U.S. /ˌmɛɡ(ə)loʊˈsɔrəd/, /ˌmɛɡ(ə)ləˈsɔrəd/ Palaeontology.
A. n.
A member of the genus Megalosaurus or related genera (originally regarded as members of a distinct family) of large carnivorous dinosaurs.
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Megalosaurus1822
megalosaur1842
megalosaurian1854
megalosauroid1890
megalosaurid1922
1922 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 46 371 The tail of the megalosaurids is primitive.
1966 A. S. Romer Vertebr. Paleontol. (ed. 3) xii. 153/1 Although a few small megalosaurids survived, the characteristic carnosaurs of the late Cretaceous were the still larger and more powerful tyrannosaurids.
1988 M. J. Benton Dinosaurs 41/1 The megalosaurids are known almost entirely from Europe (Megalosaurus) and North America (Allosaurus, Dryptosaurus), with rare specimens from Africa (Carcharodontosaurus) and recent important discoveries from South America (Piatnitzkysaurus) and China (Xuanhanosaurus).
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or designating dinosaurs of a group related to Megalosaurus.
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the world > animals > reptiles > extinct reptiles and dinosaurs > [adjective] > of order Sauria > having characteristic of megalosaurus
megalosaurian1842
megalosauroid1869
megalosaurid1922
1922 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 46 371 The pelvis..is very much nearer to the cœlurid and ornithomimid type than it is to the megalosaurid construction.
1979 Science 28 Sept. 1377/3 (caption) A megalosaurid carnosaur from the Jurassic of Patagonia.
1997 P. J. Currie & K. Padian Encycl. Dinosaurs 416/1 The type specimen of the thyreophorean Scelidosaurus harrisonii..consisted of the partial femur of a large megalosaurid theropod.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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