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allosauroid

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  • noun paleontology Any member of a superfamily clade of dinosaurs including the sinoraptorids, carcharodontosaurids and allosaurids.

Etymologies

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

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Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. carnosaur
  2. dinosaur
  3. saurischian
  4. theropod

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