FAMILIENLISTE / Megalosauroidea
Huxley, 1889
Saurischia Theropoda Tetanurae Spinosauroidea Megalosauroidea
Die Familie der Megalosauroidea ("große Echsenform") waren zweibeinige Fleischfresser innerhalb der Gruppe der Spinosauroidea. Sie schließt die Subfamilien Megalosaurinae und Afrovenatorinae ein. In dieser Familie wurden oft alle Theropoden klassifiziert, deren Zuordnung nicht eindeutig möglich war. Einige Wissenschaftler wie Paul Sereno (2005), lehnen die Familie Megalosauridae zu Gunsten der Torvosauridae (Jensen, 1985) trotz der Tatsache ab, dass der Name Megalosauridae im Rahmen der Regeln der ICZN in der Zoologie Priorität hat. Ebenso lehnen Sereno und andere Forscher die Verwendung des Namens der Superfamilie Megalosauroidea zu Gunsten von Spinosauroidea ab. Auch wird der Name Megalosauridae in der aktuellen wissenschaftlichen Literatur kaum noch benutzt und nur noch für einige Theropoden aus dem mittleren Jura Europas verwendet.
Megalosauroidea
. Piveteausaurus
. Sciurumimus
-Megalosauridae
-. Eustreptospondylus
-. Magnosaurus
-. Poekilopleuron
-. Wiehenvenator
-. Streptospondylus
--Megalosaurinae
--. Dubreuillosaurus
--. Duriavenator
--. Megalosaurus (Typ)
--. Torvosaurus
---Piatnitzkysauridae
----. Condorraptor
----. Marshosaurus
----. Piatnitzkysaurus
----. Xuanhanosaurus
----Afrovenatorinae
----. Afrovenator
----. Leshansaurus
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Weitere Informationen
A description of Megalosaurus bucklandii (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Bathonian of the UK and the relationships of Middle Jurassic theropods / Roger B. J. Benson, 2010 / Zoological Journal of The Linnean Society of London, Volume 158, Issue4, April 2010, Pages 882 - 935
A new megalosaurid theropod dinosaur from the late Middle Jurassic (Callovian) of north-western Germany: Implications for theropod evolution and faunal turnover in the Jurassic / Oliver Walter Mischa Rauhut, Tom R. Hübner, Klaus-Peter Lanser, 2016 / Palaeontologia Electronica 19.2.26A: 1-65
A Redescription Of ' Megalosaurus ' Hesperis (Dinosauria, Theropoda) From The Inferior Oolite (Bajocian, Middle Jurassic) Of Dorset, United Kingdom / Roger B. J. Benson, 2008 / Zootaxa 1931: 57–67, 2008
Braincase structure of the Middle Jurassic theropod dinosaur Piatnitzkysaurus / Oliver W. M. Rauhut, 2004 / Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 08/2004; 41:1109-1122
Discovery of a megalosaur (dinosauria, Theropoda) in the Middle Bathonian of Normandy (France) and its implications for the phylogeny of basal Tetanurae/ Ronan Allain, 2002 / Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22 (3): 548–563
Early Cretaceous dinosaurs from the Sahara / Paul C. Sereno, Jeffrey A. Wilson, Hans C. E. Larsson, Didier B. Dutheil, Hans-Dieter Sues, 1994 / Science, New Series, Volume 266, Issue 5183 (Oct. 14, 1994), 267-271
Late Jurassic theropod dinosaur bones from the Langenberg Quarry (Lower Saxony, Germany) provide evidence for several theropod lineages in the central European archipelago / Serjoscha W. Evers, Oliver Wings, 2020 / PeerJ 8:e8437 /
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Macroevolutionary patterns in the pelvis, stylopodium and zeugopodium of megalosauroid theropod dinosaurs and their importance for locomotor function / Mauro B. S. Lacerda, Jonathas S. Bittencourt, John R. Hutchinson, 2023 / R. Soc. Open Sci. 10: 230481 /PDF
Material referred to Megalosaurus (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Middle Jurassic of Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, England: One taxon or two? / Julia J. Day, Paul M. Barrett, 2004 / Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, Volume 115, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 359-366
Taxonomic and stratigraphic update of the material historically attributed to Megalosaurus from Portugal / Elisabete Malafaia, Pedro Mocho, Fernando Escaso, Ivan Narvaéz, Francisco Ortega, 2024 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 69 (2), 2024: 127-171 /PDF
The axial osteology of the theropod dinosaur Piatnitzkysaurus floresi from the Early Jurassic of Patagonia, Argentina / Luciano A. Pradelli, Diego Pol, Nahuel A. Vega, Martín D. Ezcurra, 2026 / Royal Society Open Science, Volume 13, Issue 1, 251876 /PDF
The dentition of megalosaurid theropods / Christophe Hendrickx, Octávio Mateus, Ricardo Araújo, 2015 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60 (3), 2015: 627-642 /PDF
The large theropod fauna of the Lourinha Formation (Portugal) and its similarity to that of the Morrison Formation, with a description of a new species of Allosaurus / Mateus Octavio, Walen Aart, Antunes Miguel Telles, 2006 / New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. Bulletin. 36, 2006
Torvosaurus gurneyi n. sp., the Largest Terrestrial Predator from Europe, and a Proposed Terminology of the Maxilla Anatomy in Nonavian Theropods / Christophe Hendrickx, Octávio Mateus, 2014 / PLOS ONE 9(3): e88905 /PDF
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