Annotated catalogue of the dinosaurs (Reptilia, Archosauria) in the collections of Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Author
John S. McIntosh
Research Associate, Section of Vertebrate Fossils; Department of Physics, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut 06457
text
Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History
1981
1981-10-16
18
1
67
journal article
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3943059
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3943059
Family
Megalosauridae
Genus
Allosaurus
Marsh, 1877
Syn.: (?
)
Antrodemus
Leidy, 1870
.
Although it is not unlikely that the half caudal centrum upon which Leidy founded
Antrodemus
belongs to this animal, the realization in recent years that a number of large theropods were present in the Morrison Formation makes positive verification of the synonymy difficult. Most writers today have returned to the use of the name
Allosaurusthe
position adopted here.