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Megalosaurus

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megalosaurnoun	A carnivorous dinosaur of the family Megalosauridae.

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megalosaurnoun	A carnivorous dinosaur of the family Megalosauridae.
hylaeosaurusnoun	A herbivorous ankylosaurian dinosaur that lived about 165 million years ago during the Cretaceous period
proceratosaurus	a genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) of England.
allosaurusnoun	A large, carnivorous dinosaur, of genus Allosaurus, that lived in the Jurassic period.
ceratosaurus	Ceratosaurus (from Greek 'horn' and 'lizard') was a carnivorous theropod dinosaur that lived in the Late Jurassic period (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian ages).
megapnosaurus	(meaning "big dead lizard", from Greek μέγα = "big", ἄπνοος = "not breathing", "dead", σαῦρος = "lizard") an extinct genus of coelophysid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 188 million years ago during the early part of the Jurassic Period in what is now Africa.
metriacanthosaurus	(meaning "moderately-spined lizard") a genus of metriacanthosaurid dinosaur from the Oxford Clay Formation of England, dating to the Late Jurassic period, about 160 million years ago (lower Oxfordian).
megalosauroidea	(meaning 'great/big lizard forms') a superfamily (or clade) of tetanuran theropod dinosaurs that lived from the Middle Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous period.
rhomaleosaurus	(meaning "strong lizard") an extinct genus of Early Jurassic (Toarcian age, about 183 to 175.6 million years ago) rhomaleosaurid pliosauroid known from Northamptonshire and from Yorkshire of the United Kingdom.
elaphrosaurus	a genus of ceratosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 154 to 150 million years ago during the Late Jurassic Period in what is now Tanzania in Africa.
piatnitzkysaurus	(meaning "Piatnitzky's lizard") a genus of tetanuran theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 179 to 177 million years ago during the lower part of the Jurassic Period in what is now Argentina.
daspletosaurus	(meaning "frightful lizard") a genus of tyrannosaurid dinosaur that lived in Laramidia between about 78 and 74.4 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous Period.
gigantspinosaurus	a genus of herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic.
gorgosaurusnoun	A tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur of the genus Gorgosaurus that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period (Campanian), between about 76.6 and 75.1 million years ago.
aegyptosaurus	Aegyptosaurus (meaning 'Egypt's lizard') is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in what is now Africa, around 95 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous Period (Cenomanian faunal stage).
pliosaurus	(meaning 'more lizard') an extinct genus of thalassophonean pliosaurid known from the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian and Tithonian stages) of Europe and South America.
thescelosaurus	(ancient Greek - meaning "marvelous", and "lizard") an extinct genus of neornithischian dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period in North America.
eustreptospondylusnoun	A megalosaurid dinosaur, of the genus †Eustreptospondylus, from the Callovian stage of the Middle Jurassic period.
eotyrannus	(meaning "dawn tyrant") a genus of tyrannosauroid theropod dinosaur hailing from the Early Cretaceous Wessex Formation beds, included in Wealden Group, located in the southwest coast of the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.
plesiosuchus	an extinct genus of geosaurine metriorhynchid crocodyliform known from the Late Jurassic (late Kimmeridgian to early Tithonian stage) of Dorset, England and possibly also Spain.