allosauroid

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English

Etymology

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

Noun

allosauroid (plural allosauroids)

  1. (paleontology) Any member of a superfamily clade of dinosaurs including the sinoraptorids, carcharodontosaurids and allosaurids.

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