Definition of Megalosaurus. Meaning of Megalosaurus. Synonyms of Megalosaurus

- certain remains of Megalosaurus come from Oxfordshire and date to the late Middle Jur****ic. The earliest remains of Megalosaurus were described in the...
- complete specimen became the holotype of a new species in the genus Megalosaurus, named M. wetherilli by Samuel P. Welles in 1954. Welles found a larger...
- Algeria by French paleontologists Charles Depéret and Justin Savornin as Megalosaurus saharicus. A partial skeleton initially referred to this genus was collected...
- Middle Jur****ic to the Late Cretaceous period. The group is defined as Megalosaurus bucklandii and all taxa sharing a more recent common ancestor with it...
- Megalosaurus, M. hesperis; the specific name means 'the West' or 'western'. Later researchers questioned whether the species belonged to Megalosaurus...
- nascent nature of the science in the 19th century, with the Iguanodon and Megalosaurus models being particularly singled out. Following the closure of the Great...
- type species is E. superbus, which was initially known as a species of Megalosaurus. The holotype, specimen MNHN 2001-4, was discovered during the early...
- specimen of a new species of the genus Megalosaurus, naming it M. bradleyi in honour of its discoverer. Megalosaurus, the first named non-bird dinosaur,...
- also wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur, which he named Megalosaurus in 1824. Buckland followed the Gap Theory in interpreting the biblical...
- has often been confused with or included in Megalosaurus. In 1923, Friedrich von Huene named Megalosaurus nethercombensis from a partial skeleton (OUM...