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Taxon
Taxon
Megalosaurinae
Nominal Author
Huxley 1869
2nd Nominal Author
Nopcsa 1928
Taxon Status INACTIVE
Comments
Potential Synonomy

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Definition Type Unknown
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Inactive Taxon Status
Rejection Criteria historically polyphyletic
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Critique
This taxon was defined by Holtz et al. (2004) but should be avoided given the long historical abuse of the family name Megalosauridae, which was used as a wastebasket for large basal theropods from several continents.
 

Definitional History #1
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All Megalosauridae that are more closely related to Poekilopleuron than to Torvosaurus.
Latest Record
Allain 2002:563
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Poekilopleuron, Torvosaurus
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Definitional History #2
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Megalosaurus bucklandi and all taxa sharing a more recent common ancestor with it than with Eustreptospondylus oxoniensis.
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Holtz et al. 2004:96
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Megalosaurus bucklandi, Eustreptospondylus oxoniensis
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