Carnosauria
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Carnosauria is an extinct group of carnivorous theropod dinosaurs that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
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- Allosaurus SDNHM (1).jpg
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- Commons category
- Tetanurae
- taxon name
- Carnosauria
- start time
- 175600000-
- end time
- 88000000-0
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- History of study
- Anatomy
- Classification
- Conventional phylogeny
- Alternative hypotheses
- Paleobiology and behavior
- Paleobiogeography
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Carnosauria is an extinct group of carnivorous theropod dinosaurs that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
While Carnosauria was historically considered largely synonymous with Allosauroidea, some recent studies have revived Carnosauria as clade including both Allosauroidea and Megalosauroidea (which is sometimes recovered as paraphyletic with respect to Allosauroidea), and thus including the majority of non-coelurosaurian members of theropod clade Tetanurae. Other researchers have found Allosauroidea and Megalosauroidea to be unrelated groups.