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Allosaurus, n. Palaeont.|æləʊˈsɔːrəs|
Pl. Allosauri.
[mod.L. (coined by O. C. Marsh 1877, in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts CXIV. 515): see allo-, *-saur.]
A genus of large bipedal carnivorous theropod dinosaurs known from remains discovered in rocks of the Late Jurassic in North America; (also allosaurus) a dinosaur of this genus.
1886Encycl. Brit. XX. 443/2 Order 4. Theropoda... Fam. a...Genera: Megalosaurus (European): Allosaurus, Cœlosaurus, [etc.]. 1911Ibid. XX Plate facing p. 581 (caption) Skeleton of Allosaurus. 1955Sci. News Let. 5 Feb. 94/2 Cavemen had enough to face, what with mastodons, cave bears and woolly rhinoceroses; it is just as well that they were spared casual allosauri and diplodocuses. 1966A. S. Romer Vertebr. Paleont. (ed. 3) xii. 153/1 Allosaurus was an animal with a total length of about 34 feet. 1975N.Y. Times 3 Oct. 16/1 Anyone who can shell out $29,995 for the store's ‘Saurian Safari’ is guaranteed a skeleton of an allosaurus. 1986G. Culverwell tr. Arduini & Teruzzi's Macdonald Encycl. Fossils No. 218, The genus Allosaurus has been discovered in Upper Jurassic sediments (160 million years ago) in the U.S. 1991Sydney Morning Herald 28 Sept. 21/1 Palaeontologists believe a 150-million-year-old allosaurus skeleton..could lead them to a vast dinosaur graveyard. |