Allosaurus
Replica of Allosaurus skull (San Diego Natural History Museum).
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Sauropsida Superorder: Dinosauria Order: Saurischia Suborder: Theropoda Infraorder: Carnosauria Family: Allosauridae Genus: Allosaurus Marsh, 1877
Species
A. fragilis type A. atrox (Marsh, 1878) Paul, 1987 A. europaeus Mateus et al., 2006 A. "jimmadseni" Chure, 2000 vide Glut, 2003
Synonyms
Creosaurus Marsh, 1878 Labrosaurus Marsh, 1879 Camptonotus Marsh, 1879  ?Epanterias Cope, 1878

Allosaurus (IPA: /ˌæləˈsɔɹəs/) was a large (up to 11.7 m long) bipedal carnivorous dinosaur. The name Allosaurus comes from the Greek allos/αλλος, meaning 'strange' or 'different' and saurus/σαυρος, meaning 'lizard' or 'reptile'.^[1] It was named 'different lizard' because its vertebrae were different from those of other dinosaurs known at the time of its discovery. Allosaurus was the most common large predator in the Morrison Formation of what is now North America, 155 to 145 million years ago, in the late Jurassic period. It shared the landscape with several genera of giant sauropods such as Apatosaurus, Diplodocus and Camarasaurus as well as other herbivores such as Stegosaurus and Camptosaurus, all of which may have been potential prey. Image File history File linksMetadata Allosaurus_skull_SDNHM.jpg Summary Skull of the Allosaurus fragilis skeleton mounted in the lobby of the San Diego Natural History Museum. ... It has been suggested that temporal fenestra be merged into this article or section. ... The conservation status of a species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species continuing to survive either in the present day or the future. ... Three small ammonite fossils, each approximately 1. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. ... Animalia redirects here. ... Typical Classes See below Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates. ... Clades Subclass Anapsida Subclass Diapsida Infraclass Lepidosauromorpha Infraclass Archosauromorpha Sauropsids are a diverse group of mostly egg-laying vertebrate animals. ... Orders & Suborders Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Theropoda Ornithischia Thyreophora Ornithopoda Marginocephalia Dinosaurs were vertebrate animals that dominated the terrestrial ecosystem for over 160 million years, first appearing approximately 230 million years ago. ... Groups Sauropodomorpha    Saturnalia    Prosauropoda    Sauropoda Theropoda    Eoraptor    Herrerasauridae    Ceratosauria    Tetanurae       Aves(extant) Saurischians (from the Greek Saurischia meaning lizard hip) are one of the two orders/branches of dinosaurs. ... Subdivisions ?Eoraptor Herrerasauria Coelophysoidea Ceratosauria Cryolophosaurus Spinosauridae Carnosauria Coelurosauria Theropods (beast foot) are a group of bipedal saurischian dinosaurs. ... Families Allosauridae    Allosaurinae    ?Carcharodontosaurinae Sinraptoridae Carnosauria is a sub-group of Theropoda, a group of predatory dinosaurs. ... Allosaurids were a family of medium to large sized carnivorous dinosaurs. ... Othniel Charles Marsh (1831-1899) Othniel Charles Marsh (October 29, 1831 - March 18, 1899) was one of the pre-eminent paleontologists of the 19th century, who discovered and named many fossils found in the American West. ... Type specimens When a new species is discovered, more important than creating a new and unique name for the species is developing a reasonably detailed description. ... Othniel Charles Marsh (1831-1899) Othniel Charles Marsh (October 29, 1831 - March 18, 1899) was one of the pre-eminent paleontologists of the 19th century, who discovered and named many fossils found in the American West. ... Gregory S. Paul (born 1954) is a freelance paleontologist, author and illustrator. ... In scientific nomenclature, synonyms are different scientific names used for a single taxon. ... Othniel Charles Marsh (1831-1899) Othniel Charles Marsh (October 29, 1831 - March 18, 1899) was one of the pre-eminent paleontologists of the 19th century, who discovered and named many fossils found in the American West. ... Othniel Charles Marsh (1831-1899) Othniel Charles Marsh (October 29, 1831 - March 18, 1899) was one of the pre-eminent paleontologists of the 19th century, who discovered and named many fossils found in the American West. ... Othniel Charles Marsh (1831-1899) Othniel Charles Marsh (October 29, 1831 - March 18, 1899) was one of the pre-eminent paleontologists of the 19th century, who discovered and named many fossils found in the American West. ... Species  (type) Epanterias amplexus is a species of theropod dinosaur described by Edward Drinker Cope in 1878 [1]. Epanterias was a speices of allosaur, and is considered by most paleontologists to be a species of Allosaurus rather than a separate genus. ... Edward Drinker Cope Edward Drinker Cope (July 28, 1840–April 12, 1897) was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, as well as a noted herpetologist and ichthyologist. ... This chart shows concisely the most common way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is applied to represent the English language. ... The metre, or meter (U.S.), is a measure of length. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This tigers sharp teeth and strong jaws are the classical physical traits expected from carnivorous mammalian predators A carnivore (IPA: ), meaning meat eater (Latin carne meaning flesh and vorare meaning to devour), is an animal that eats a diet consisting mainly of meat, whether it comes from live animals... Orders & Suborders Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Theropoda Ornithischia Thyreophora Ornithopoda Marginocephalia Dinosaurs were vertebrate animals that dominated the terrestrial ecosystem for over 160 million years, first appearing approximately 230 million years ago. ... A diagram of a thoracic vertebra. ... The Morrison Formation is a distinctive body of rock in the western United States and Canada that has been the most fertile source of fossils in North America. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... Mega-annum, usually abbreviated as Ma, is a unit of time equal to one million years. ... // The image above is believed to be a replaceable fair use image. ... A geologic period is a subdivision of geologic time that divides Eras into smaller timeframes. ... Families Brachiosauridae Camarasauridae Cetiosauridae Diplodocidae Euhelopodidae Nemegtosauridae Titanosauridae Vulcanodontidae Sauropoda, the sauropods, are a suborder or infraorder of the saurischian (lizard-hipped) dinosaurs. ... Species Apatosaurus ajax Apatosaurus excelsus Apatosaurus louisae Apatosaurus (pronounced ) meaning deceptive lizard, because its chevron bones were like those of Mosasaurus (Greek apatelos or apatelios = deceptive + sauros = lizard), often mistakenly referred to as Brontosaurus, is a genus of sauropod dinosaurs that lived about 140 million years ago, during the Jurassic... Species (Hatcher, 1901) (Holland, 1924) (Marsh, 1878; holotype) Diplodocus (dih-PLOH-doc-us) meaning double beam in reference to its double-beamed chevron bones (Greek diplos = double + dokos = beam) is a type of dinosaur of subgroup Sauropoda. ... Species (holotype) The Camarasaurus (pronounced KAM-a-rah-SORE-us) was a genera of quadrupedal, herbivorous dinosaurs. ... Species Marsh, 1877 (type) Marsh, 1887 Gilmore, 1914 Stegosaurus (IPA pronunciation ) is a genus of stegosaurid armoured dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period (Kimmeridgian to Early Tithonian) of what is now western North America. ... Species C. hoggii Owen, 1874 C. dispar (Type) Marsh, 1879 C. prestwichii Hulke, 1880 Camptosaurus (KAMP-to-sawr-us) was a genus of plant-eating, beaked dinosaurs of the Late Jurassic Period. ...

Description

A replica Allosaurus skeleton in Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand. The current view is that the animal normally stood in a more horizontal position.

Allosaurus was a typical large theropod, having a massive skull on a short neck, a long tail and reduced forelimbs. Its most distinctive feature was a pair of blunt horns, just above and in front of the eyes. Although short in comparison to the hindlimbs, the forelimbs were massive and bore large, eagle-like claws. The skull showed evidence of being composed of separate modules, which could be moved in relation to one another, allowing large pieces of meat to be swallowed. The skeleton of Allosaurus, like other theropods, displayed bird-like features, such as a furcula (wishbone) and neck vertebrae hollowed by air sacs. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 119 KB)Photo taken at Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 119 KB)Photo taken at Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The Canterbury Museum is located in Christchurch, New Zealand. ... Christchurch is a city in the Canterbury region of New Zealand. ... Families See text Theropods (beast foot) are a group of bipedal, primarily carnivorous dinosaurs, belonging to the saurischian (lizard-hip) family. ... It has been suggested that temporal fenestra be merged into this article or section. ... A human neck. ... A scorpion tail A tail is the section at the rear end of an animals body, the term particularly referring to such a section which forms a distinct, flexible appendage to the torso. ... A claw is a curved pointed appendage, found at the end of a toe or finger or, in arthropods, of the tarsus. ... Aves redirects here. ... Bronze cast of a Tyrannosaurus furcula. ... Air sac is an anatomical term with several meanings: Pulmonary alveolus, informally known as an air sac, one of innumerable spherical outcroppings of the respiratory bronchioles in the mammalian lung, the primary sites of gas exchange with the blood an anatomical structure continuous with the trachea found in some insects...

Allosaurus fragilis had an average length of 7-9 meters (~30 feet), with the largest definitive Allosaurus specimen (AMNH 680) measuring 9.7 m (32 ft). Several gigantic specimens have been attributed to Allosaurus, but may in fact belong to other genera. The closely related genus Saurophaganax (OMNH 1708) reached 10.9 m (36 ft) in length, and has sometimes been included in the genus Allosaurus as Allosaurus maximus, though recent studies lend support to the idea that it does belong in a seperate genus.^[2] Another specimen, once assigned to the genus Epanterias (AMNH 5767), may have measured 12.1 m in length. Epanterias may be a species of Allosaurus or Saurophaganax.[1] Saurophaganax was an allosaurid dinosaur from Jurassic North America. ... Species  (type) Epanterias amplexus is a species of theropod dinosaur described by Edward Drinker Cope in 1878 [1]. Epanterias was a speices of allosaur, and is considered by most paleontologists to be a species of Allosaurus rather than a separate genus. ...

Finds

Allosaurus is the most common theropod in the vast tract of dinosaur-bearing rock in the American Southwest known as the Morrison Formation. Remains have been recovered in Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Utah, in the United States. There have also been finds in Portugal. Allosaurus shared the Jurassic landscape with several other theropods, including Ceratosaurus and the massive Torvosaurus. The Southwest region of the United States is drier than the adjoining Midwest in weather; the population is less dense and, with strong Spanish-American and Native American components, more ethnically varied than neighboring areas. ... The Morrison Formation is a distinctive body of rock in the western United States and Canada that has been the most fertile source of fossils in North America. ... Official language(s) English Capital Helena Largest city Billings Area  Ranked 4th  - Total 147,165 sq mi (381,156 km²)  - Width 255 miles (410 km)  - Length 630 miles (1,015 km)  - % water 1  - Latitude 44°26N to 49°N  - Longitude 104°2W to 116°2W Population  Ranked... Official language(s) English Capital Cheyenne Largest city Cheyenne Area  Ranked 10th  - Total 97,818 sq mi (253,348 km²)  - Width 280 miles (450 km)  - Length 360 miles (580 km)  - % water 0. ... Official language(s) English Capital Pierre Largest city Sioux Falls Area  Ranked 17th  - Total 77,163 sq mi (199,905 km²)  - Width 210 miles (340 km)  - Length 380 miles (610 km)  - % water 1. ... Official language(s) English Capital Denver Largest city Denver Area  Ranked 8th  - Total 104,185 sq mi (269,837 km²)  - Width 280 miles (451 km)  - Length 380 miles (612 km)  - % water 0. ... Official language(s) None Capital Oklahoma City Largest city Oklahoma City Area  Ranked 20th  - Total 69,960 sq mi (181,196 km²)  - Width 230 miles (370 km)  - Length 298 miles (480 km)  - % water 1. ... Capital Santa Fe Largest city Albuquerque Area  Ranked 5th  - Total 121,665 sq mi (315,194 km²)  - Width 342 miles (550 km)  - Length 370 miles (595 km)  - % water 0. ... // Ceratosaurus // meaning horned lizard, in reference to the horn on its nose (Greek keras/keratos meaning horn and sauros meaning lizard), was a large predatory dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period, found in the Morrison Formation of North America, in Tanzania and possibly in Portugal. ... Binomial name Torvosaurus tanneri Galton & Jensen, 1979 Torvosaurus (TORE-vo-SORE-us) was a giant carnivorous dinosaur, similar in appearance to the Tyrannosaurus though it had larger arms, and a bulky body. ...

Allosaurus skull from Dinosaur National Monument, still partially encased in matrix.

A famous fossil bed can be found in the Cleveland Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry in Utah. This fossil bed contains over 10,000 bones, mostly of Allosaurus, intermixed with the remains of other dinosaurs, such as Stegosaurus and Ceratosaurus. It is still a mystery how the remnants of so many animals can be found in one place. The ratio of fossils of carnivorous animals over fossils of plant eaters is normally very small. Findings like these can be explained by pack hunting, although this is difficult to prove. Another possibility is that the Cleveland Lloyd site formed a 'predator trap', similar to the La Brea Tar Pits, that caused large numbers of predators to become mired in an inescapable sediment.[2] Image File history File links Allosaurus-fossilized_skull. ... Image File history File links Allosaurus-fossilized_skull. ... Dinosaur National Monument is a U.S. National Monument located on the southeast flank of the Uinta Mountains on the border between the American states of Colorado and Utah at the confluence of the Green and Yampa Rivers. ... Three small ammonite fossils, each approximately 1. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Species Marsh, 1877 (type) Marsh, 1887 Gilmore, 1914 Stegosaurus (IPA pronunciation ) is a genus of stegosaurid armoured dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period (Kimmeridgian to Early Tithonian) of what is now western North America. ... // Ceratosaurus // meaning horned lizard, in reference to the horn on its nose (Greek keras/keratos meaning horn and sauros meaning lizard), was a large predatory dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period, found in the Morrison Formation of North America, in Tanzania and possibly in Portugal. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles Countys Miracle Mile District. ...

"Big Al"

One of the more significant finds was the 1991 discovery of "Big Al" (MOR 593), a 95% complete, partially articulated, specimen that measured 8 meters (26 feet) in length. Nineteen bones were broken or showed signs of infection, which probably contributed to Big Al's death. It was featured in "The Ballad of Big Al", a special programme in the BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs series. The fossils were excavated near Shell, Wyoming by the Museum of the Rockies and the University of Wyoming Geological Museum. This skeleton was initially discovered by a Swiss team, led by Kirby Siber. The same team later excavated a second Allosaurus, "Big Al Two", which is the best preserved skeleton of its kind to date. Big Al is the name given to a fossilized Allosaurus fragilis skeleton that was found near Howe Quarry (Bighorn County, Wyoming), a member of the Morrison Formation, in 1991. ... An infection is the detrimental colonization of a host organism by a foreign species. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is one of the largest broadcasting corporations in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of more than £4 billion. ... Walking with Dinosaurs is a 1999 six-part television series produced by the BBC, narrated by Kenneth Branagh. ... The Museum of the Rockies is located in Bozeman, Montana, and is known for its paleontological collections. ... The University of Wyoming is a land-grant university located in Laramie, Wyoming, situated on Wyomings high plains, at an elevation of 7,200 feet (2194 m), between the Laramie and Medicine Bow mountain ranges. ...

Classification and history

life restoration of Allosaurus fragilis.

The first Allosaurus fossil to be described was a 'petrified horse hoof' given to Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden in 1869, by the natives of Middle Park, near Granby, Colorado. It was actually a caudal vertebra (a tail bone), which Joseph Leidy tentatively assigned first to the Poekilopleuron genus and later to a new genus, Antrodemus.^[3] However, it was Othniel Charles Marsh who gave the formal name Allosaurus fragilis to the genus and type species in 1877,^[4] based on much better material, including a partial skeleton, from Garden Park, north of Cañon City, Colorado. Image File history File links Allosaurus_BW.jpg‎ Allosaurus, pencil drawing Author:User:ArthurWeasley File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Allosaurus Wikipedia:WikiProject Dinosaurs/Image review User:ArthurWeasley ... Image File history File links Allosaurus_BW.jpg‎ Allosaurus, pencil drawing Author:User:ArthurWeasley File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Allosaurus Wikipedia:WikiProject Dinosaurs/Image review User:ArthurWeasley ... Three small ammonite fossils, each approximately 1. ... Binomial name Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758 The horse (Equus caballus, sometimes seen as a subspecies of the Wild Horse, Equus ferus caballus) is a large odd-toed ungulate mammal, one of ten modern species of the genus Equus. ... Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (September 7, 1829 - December 22, 1887) was an American geologist noted for his pioneering surveying expeditions of Rocky Mountains in the late 19th century. ... 1869 (MDCCCLXIX) is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Granby, Colorado is located along U.S. Highway 40 in Grand County, Colorado. ... A diagram of a thoracic vertebra. ... Joseph Leidy (1823–1891) was an American paleontologist. ... Species Poekilopleuron was a 30 foot (9 meters) long megalosaur from the Middle Jurassic. ... For other uses of the word, please see Genus (disambiguation). ... Species (type) Allosaurus (AL-oh-sore-us) meaning “different lizard”, because its vertebrae were different from those of all other dinosaurs (Greek allos = different + sauros = lizard), was a large carnivorous dinosaur with a length of up to 12 m (39 ft). ... Othniel Charles Marsh (1831-1899) Othniel Charles Marsh (October 29, 1831 - March 18, 1899) was one of the pre-eminent paleontologists of the 19th century, who discovered and named many fossils found in the American West. ... Type specimens When a new species is discovered, more important than creating a new and unique name for the species is developing a reasonably detailed description. ... 1877 (MDCCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Canon City redirects here. ...

The species epithet fragilis is Latin for 'fragile'. Both refer to lightening features in the vertebrae. Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ...

It is unclear how many species of Allosaurus there were. The material from the Cleveland Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry specimen is much smaller and more lightly-built than the huge and robust Allosaurus from Brigham Young University's Dry Mesa Quarry. One species of Allosaurus has been described from Portugal, A. europaeus.^[5] Brigham Young University Brigham Young University, often referred to as BYU, is the flagship university of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). ... Dry Mesa Quarry is situated in Colorado, USA, near the town of Delta. ...

Allosaurid relatives

• An allosaurid astragalus (ankle bone) was found at Cape Patterson, Victoria in early Cretaceous beds in Southeastern Australia. This is notable as this part of Australia lay within the Antarctic Circle at the time.

Species See text Astragalus is a large genus of herbs, belonging to the legume family Fabaceae. ... Capital Melbourne Government Const. ... Zoomable PDF of the map this is based on The Antarctic Circle is one of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the Earth. ...

In popular culture

Allosaurus is the official state dinosaur of Utah, in the United States. This is a list of U.S. state dinosaurs in the United States, including the District of Columbia. ... Official language(s) English Capital Salt Lake City Largest city Salt Lake City Area  Ranked 13th  - Total 84,876 sq mi (219,887 km²)  - Width 270 miles (435 km)  - Length 350 miles (565 km)  - % water 3. ...

The Allosaurus "Big Al", as depicted in the BBC Walking With Dinosaurs special The Ballad Of Big Al.

Gwangi, an Allosaurus from the Ray Harryhausen film "The Valley of Gwangi", fights and kills a Styracosaurus.

Along with its distant relative Tyrannosaurus, Allosaurus has come to represent the quintissential large, carnivorous dinosaur in popular culture. Allosaurus has featured in the following films: Image File history File links Allo. ... Image File history File links Allo. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is one of the largest broadcasting corporations in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of more than £4 billion. ... Walking with Dinosaurs is a 1999 six-part television series produced by the BBC, narrated by Kenneth Branagh. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Gwangi_vs_Styracosaurus. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Gwangi_vs_Styracosaurus. ... Ray Harryhausen (born June 29, 1920 in Los Angeles, California) is an American producer and, most notably, a special effects creator. ... Gwangi fights and kills a Styracosaurus. ... Species Styracosaurus (meaning spiked lizard from Greek styrax/στυραξ spike at the butt-end of a spear-shaft and saurus/σαυρος lizard) was a herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur from the Cretaceous Period, about 77 to 74 million years ago. ... Binomial name Tyrannosaurus rex Osborn, 1905 Synonyms Manospondylus Cope, 1892 Dynamosaurus Osborn, 1905 Nanotyrannus? Bakker, Williams & Currie, 1988 Stygivenator Olshevsky, 1995 Dinotyrannus Olshevsky, 1995 Tyrannosaurus (IPA pronunciation or ; from the Greek τυραννόσαυρος, meaning tyrant lizard) is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur. ...

Allosaurus is top predator in both Arthur Conan Doyle's novel, The Lost World, and the 1925 film adaptation (not to be confused with Tyrannosaurus, which also appears in the film). Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and the adventures of Professor Challenger. ... The Lost World is a 1912 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau (native name is Tepuyes) in South America (Venezuela) where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive. ... The Lost World is a 1925 silent adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyles book of the same name. ... Binomial name Tyrannosaurus rex Osborn, 1905 Synonyms Manospondylus Cope, 1892 Dynamosaurus Osborn, 1905 Nanotyrannus? Bakker, Williams & Currie, 1988 Stygivenator Olshevsky, 1995 Dinotyrannus Olshevsky, 1995 Tyrannosaurus (IPA pronunciation or ; from the Greek τυραννόσαυρος, meaning tyrant lizard) is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur. ...

In the film One Million Years BC, a juvinile Allosaurus threatened the shell tribe, but was eventually dispatched by the film's hero, Tumak. Categories: 1966 films | Movie stubs ...

The Valley of Gwangi (Gwangi is technically meant to be an Allosaurus but Ray Harryhausen based his model for the creature on Tyrannosaurus. Harryhausen often confuses the two, stating in a DVD interview "They're both meat eaters, they're both Tyrants... one was just a bit larger than the other.") Gwangi fights and kills a Styracosaurus. ...

The main hero of Dinosaucers, "Allo", is an anthropomorphic Allosaurus. Dinosaucers was a television cartoon created by DIC Entertainment in association with Ellipse Programme that originally aired on various UHF networks in the USA in 1987, on the Family Channel between 1989 and 1991, and later in 1993 and again in 1995 on the USA Network. ...

Fran Sinclair of Dinosaurs (TV series) is mentioned on the show and a number of merchandise packaging as being an Allosaurus. Dinosaurs was an American television sitcom on ABC, produced by Michael Jacobs Productions and Jim Henson Productions in association with Walt Disney Television and Sunbow Productions about a family of talking dinosaurs that ran for 65 episodes from April 1991 to July 1994. ...

An Allosaurus named Santo was the main character of an Age of Reptiles comic, The Hunt. He was pitted against a pack of Ceratosaurus. Age of Reptiles is a comic published by Dark Horse Comics. ... // Ceratosaurus // meaning horned lizard, in reference to the horn on its nose (Greek keras/keratos meaning horn and sauros meaning lizard), was a large predatory dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period, found in the Morrison Formation of North America, in Tanzania and possibly in Portugal. ...

Calvin in the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes often imagines himself as an Allosaurus in his various dinosaur fantasies. Listen to this article (3 parts) · (info) Part 1 · Part 2 · Part 3 This audio file was created from an article revision dated 2006-01-29, and may not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ...

Allosaurus appears in the second and fifth episodes of Walking with Dinosaurs. As the main enemy of Diplodocus in the second episode, one injures the main character, a female, by taking a deep bite out of her back. A dwarf (Australian) species appears in the fifth episode, as the main predator of Leaellynasaura, killing and eating the leading Leaellynasaura female. The Walking With Dinosaurs special The Ballad of Big Al chornicles the life of Big Al. Walking with Dinosaurs is a 1999 six-part television series produced by the BBC, narrated by Kenneth Branagh. ... Species (Hatcher, 1901) (Holland, 1924) (Marsh, 1878; holotype) Diplodocus (dih-PLOH-doc-us) meaning double beam in reference to its double-beamed chevron bones (Greek diplos = double + dokos = beam) is a type of dinosaur of subgroup Sauropoda. ... The hand mirror and comb of the Roman Goddess Venus is often used to represent the female sex. ... First discovered in Dinosaur Cove, Australia, Leaellynasaura was a dinosaur from the earliest Cretaceous. ...

Allosaurus appear in When Dinosaurs Roamed America, killing a Ceratosaurus and feasting on a wounded Apatosaurus. When Dinosaurs Roamed America is a two-hour American nature documentary first aired on Discovery Channel in 2001. ... // Ceratosaurus // meaning horned lizard, in reference to the horn on its nose (Greek keras/keratos meaning horn and sauros meaning lizard), was a large predatory dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period, found in the Morrison Formation of North America, in Tanzania and possibly in Portugal. ... Species Apatosaurus ajax Apatosaurus excelsus Apatosaurus louisae Apatosaurus (pronounced ) meaning deceptive lizard, because its chevron bones were like those of Mosasaurus (Greek apatelos or apatelios = deceptive + sauros = lizard), often mistakenly referred to as Brontosaurus, is a genus of sauropod dinosaurs that lived about 140 million years ago, during the Jurassic...

Allosaurus appears in the children's television series Land of the Lost (1974 TV series) 1974-1976. Land of the Lost (1974–1976) is one in a variety of popular, uniquely produced childrens television series created and produced by Sid and Marty Krofft. ...

Allosaurus was also featured in the 2005 Ray Bradbury movie A Sound of Thunder, where it was erroniously depicted living in the late Cretaceous period- by then, Allosaurus had long gone extinct, its niche filled instead by Tyrannosaurus. Ray Douglas Bradbury (born August 22, 1920) is an American literary, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer best known for The Martian Chronicles, a 1950 book which has been described both as a short story collection and a novel, and his 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451. ... A Sound of Thunder is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury, first published in Colliers magazine in 1952. ...

References

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• See entry on Allosaurus at DinoData (registration required, free).
• Allosaurus, the story of "Big Al", from the University of Wyoming Geological Museum in Laramie.
• Public Pioneer, Utah State Fossil, Allosaurus, from Utah.gov.
• Allosaurus fragilis, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Department of Paleobiology.
• List of the many possible Allosaurus species...