theropod in English

noun
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a carnivorous dinosaur of a group whose members are typically bipedal and range from small and delicately built to very large.
Much fossil evidence has been uncovered supporting the idea that birds evolved from a group of bipedal carnivorous dinosaurs called theropods .

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1. Allosaurus was a carnosaurian theropod, not a tyrannosauroid

2. As a theropod, Carnotaurus was highly specialized and distinctive.

3. Describe How We Know That Running – Cursoriality – Was A Key Feature Of Theropod Behavior

4. Allosaurus was a large theropod dinosaur from the Jurassic period, a predatory carnivore.

5. The Allosaurus is a pack-hunting theropod that's smaller but faster than Rex

6. Question: Describe How We Know That Running – Cursoriality – Was A Key Feature Of Theropod Behavior

7. Describe how we know that running - Cursoriality - was a key feature of theropod behavior

8. In many hadrosaur and theropod dinosaurs, the caudal vertebrae were reinforced by ossified tendons.

9. Carcharodontosaurids (from the Greek καρχαροδοντόσαυρος, carcharodontósauros: "shark-toothed lizards") were a group of carnivorous theropod dinosaurs.

10. Synonyms: Allosaur; Allosaurus Hypernyms ("Allosaur" is a kind of): bird-footed dinosaur; theropod; theropod dinosaur (any of numerous carnivorous dinosaurs of the Triassic to Cretaceous with short forelimbs that walked or ran on strong hind legs)

11. A nearly complete theropod skeleton (KMV 8701) was discovered in the Lufeng Formation, in Yunnan Province, China, in 1987.

12. Allosaur - late Jurassic carnivorous dinosaur; similar to but somewhat smaller than tyrannosaurus Allosaurus bird-footed dinosaur , theropod , theropod dinosaur - any of numerous carnivorous dinosaurs of the Triassic to Cretaceous with short forelimbs that walked or ran on strong hind legs

13. Allosaurus, meaning "different reptile," is a theropod (meat eating dinosaur) that probably ate other smaller dinosaurs.

14. "Meet Allosaurus! Equipped with your ordinary theropod build, the extremely common Allosaurus is characterized by its two display brow horns and its hatchet-like bite." Allosaurus is a large carnivorous Theropod that lived in North America and Europe during the Jurassic

15. Although commonly considered the most important African dinosaur locality, large theropod dinosaurs are only known through few and very fragmentary remains.

16. Half the body length consisted of a well-developed tail, and Allosaurus, like all theropod dinosaurs, was a biped

17. Alioramus (/ˌælioʊˈreɪməs/; meaning 'different branch') is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous period of Asia.

18. The shared presence of medullary tissue in birds and theropod dinosaurs is further evidence of the close evolutionary relationship between the two.

19. The other, known as the Cursorial theory, posits that flight arose in small, bipedal terrestrial theropod dinosaurs that sped along the ground …

20. [From New Latin ThērApsida, order name : Greek thēr, wild animal; see theropod + Greek hapsis, hApsid-, arch, vault (from the enlarged lower temporal

21. Allosaurus definition is - any of a genus (Allosaurus) of very large carnivorous North American theropod dinosaurs of the Late Jurassic period.

22. Allosaurus is a genus of large theropod dinosaur, hailing from the Kimmeridgian and Tithonian stages of the late Jurassic period of North America and Portugal

23. Baryonyx was the first theropod dinosaur demonstrated to have been piscivorous (fish-eating), as evidenced by fish scales in the stomach region of the holotype specimen.

24. Allosaurus is a genus of large theropod dinosaur that lived 155 to 150 million years ago during the late Jurassic period (Kimmeridgian to early Tithonian)

25. After all, it seems to combine a ‘typical’ non-bird theropod skeletal bauplan – traditionally associated with terrestriality and Cursoriality – with massive, fully vaned feathers that

26. Abstract: Limb length, Cursoriality and speed have long been areas of significant interest in theropod paleobiology, since locomotory capacity, especially running ability, is critical in the

27. Allosaurus (/ˌæləˈsɔːrəs/) is a genus of large carnivorous theropod dinosaur that lived 155 to 145 million years ago during the Late Jurassic epoch (Kimmeridgian to late Tithonian)

28. The Polish paleontologist Gerard Gierliński examined tridactyl footprints from the Holy Cross Mountains in Poland and concluded in 1991 that they belonged to a theropod like Dilophosaurus.

29. Anatomically, birds (the 10,000 species of which are the direct living descendants of, and so are, theropod dinosaurs) have relatively large brains compared to their head size.

30. A resting trace of a theropod similar to Dilophosaurus and Liliensternus has been interpreted by some researchers as showing impressions of feathers around the belly and feet, similar to down.

31. Crouching is a rarely captured behavior of theropods, and SGDS.18.T1 is the only such track with unambiguous impressions of theropod hands, which provides valuable information about how they used their forelimbs.

32. Barrick and Showers have defended their conclusions in subsequent papers, finding similar results in another theropod dinosaur from a different continent and tens of millions of years earlier in time (Giganotosaurus).

33. Though skeletal evidence is lacking, six shed and broken teeth from the fossil bed have been thoroughly compared with other theropod genera and appear to be identical to those of Tyrannosaurus.

34. The specimens were found in 1978 in the Rock Head Quadrangle, 190 kilometers (120 mi) away from where the original specimens were found, and had been labeled as a "large theropod".

35. Allosaurus (meaning "different lizard") was the most common predator of the Late Jurassic period and among the most dangerous. Like most theropod dinosaurs, its jaws were filled with serrated teeth shaped like blades.

36. Allosaurus is a theropod, a family of largely carnivorous dinosaurs, from the late Jurassic period and at up to 12m (39ft) long, it was one of the largest predators of its time

37. Limb length, Cursoriality and speed have long been areas of significant interest in theropod paleobiology, since locomotory capacity, especially running ability, is critical in the pursuit of prey and to avoid becoming prey

38. An Allosaur(More scientificly 'Allosauroid") was a large type of carnosaurian theropod dinosaur that was common in the late Jurassic and Early Add a photo to this gallery Cretaceous.This included the Sinraptoridae,Allosauridae,& Carcharodontosauria

39. This paper is the first of a three-part series that investigates the architecture of Cancellous (‘spongy’) bone in the main hindlimb bones of theropod dinosaurs, and uses Cancellous bone architectural patterns to infer locomotor biomechanics in extinct non-avian species

40. Dromaeosaurus (/ˌdroʊmiəˈsɔːrəs, -mioʊ-/, "swift running lizard") is a genus of theropod dinosaur which lived during the Late Cretaceous period (middle late Campanian), sometime between 76.5 and 74.8 million years ago, in the western United States and Alberta, Canada.

41. Notice how large even just the skull is in comparison to a human! Allosaurus fragilis is the most common species of carnivorous theropod dinosaur in the Morrison Formation from the Late Jurassic of North America.Although only a few of its bones are exposed in the present day quarry at Dinosaur, one of the best skeletons ever