Definition of Ceratosaurus. Meaning of Ceratosaurus. Synonyms of Ceratosaurus

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Definition of Ceratosaurus

Ceratosaurus
Ceratosaurus Cer`a*to*sau"rus, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ke`ras a horn + ? lizard.] (Paleon.) A carnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the skull bears a bony horn core on the united nasal bones. See Illustration in Appendix.

Meaning of Ceratosaurus from wikipedia

- specimens have been described since. Two additional species, Ceratosaurus dentisulcatus and Ceratosaurus magnicornis, were described in 2000 from two fragmentary...
- type species, Ceratosaurus nasicornis, described by O.C. Marsh in 1884. A moderately large predator from the Late Jur****ic, Ceratosaurus nasicornis, was...
- family's type genus, Ceratosaurus, was first found in Jur****ic rocks from North America. Ceratosauridae is made up of the genera Ceratosaurus, found in North...
- large theropods such as Allosaurus, Ceratosaurus, and Saurophaganax in the United States, Allosaurus, Ceratosaurus, and Lourinhanosaurus in Portugal, possibly...
- Martin Ezcurra and Gilles Cuny in 2007 as a node-based clade containing Ceratosaurus nasicornis, Allosaurus fragilis, their last common ancestor and all its...
- Berberosaurus Fosterovenator? Jubbulpuria Lukousaurus? Saltriovenator Ceratosauridae Ceratosaurus Genyodectes...
- Jur****ic of Switzerland. However, a recent overview of Ceratosaurus included it in Ceratosaurus sp. Apatodon mirus, based on a s**** of vertebra Marsh...
- hunted by the Ceratosaurus pack. The Allosaurus is chased all the way back to the scene of its mother's death, where he lures the Ceratosaurus pack under...
- of Ceratosaurus, due to the partially preserved portion of the crest of Proceratosaurus superficially resembling the small crest of Ceratosaurus. Now...
- and terrorize Los Angeles. These prehistoric animals include a giant Ceratosaurus, raptorlike Carnotaurus, building-climbing Spinosaurus, and brutal Pteranodon...