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Saurischia
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
Saurischia The ‘lizard-hipped’ dinosaurs , one of the two dinosaur orders. They included bipedal carnivores ( Theropoda...
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Coelurosauria
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
Coelurosauria ( coelurosaurs ; order Saurischia , suborder Theropoda ) Infraorder of carnivorous, bipedal dinosaurs , which were the most persistent of the infraordinal dinosaur...
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saurischian dinosaur
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
saurischian dinosaur See SAURISCHIA .
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carnosaur
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
carnosaur A saurischian ( Saurischia ), carnivorous dinosaur that was bipedal, powerfully built, and possessed large, dagger-like teeth. Tyrannosaurus rex , of the Upper Cretaceous , represented the culmination of the carnosaur line.
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Theropoda
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
Theropoda (subclass Archosauria , order Saurischia ) A suborder of dinosaurs which consists exclusively of bipedal, carnivorous forms. It includes the Coelurosauria and the carnosaurs and ranged from the Upper Triassic to the Cretaceous .
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Dinosauria
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
...astonishing array of different types and sizes before becoming extinct at the end of the Cretaceous . The two groups of dinosaurs, Saurischia and Ornithischia , are not usually thought to be more closely related to each other than to other archosaurs ( Archosauria...
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dinosaur
Book article from: A Dictionary of Biology
...bodies, and included Stegosaurus , Triceratops , and Iguanodon . They were all characterized by birdlike pelvic girdles. The Saurischia included many bipedal carnivorous forms, such as Tyrannosaurus (the largest known carnivore), and some quadrupedal herbivorous...
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Tyrannosaurus rex
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
Tyrannosaurus rex (order Saurischia , suborder Theropoda ) A giant, carnivorous dinosaur which lived during the Upper Cretaceous in N. America and possibly in Asia...
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brachiosaur
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...xF4;rəs; ˌbrak- / ) • n. a huge herbivorous dinosaur (genus Brachiosaurus , order Saurischia) of the late Jurassic to mid Cretaceous periods, with forelegs much longer than the hind legs. DERIVATIVES: bra·...
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dinosaurs
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
...astonishing array of different types and sizes before becoming extinct at the end of the Cretaceous . The two groups of dinosaurs, Saurischia and Ornithischia , are not usually thought to be more closely related to each other than to other archosaurs , so the concept...
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