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A description of Megalosaurus bucklandii (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Bathonian of the UK and the relationships of Middle Jurassic theropods

Benson, R. B. J. (2010)

Citation

Benson, R. B. J. (2010). A description of Megalosaurus bucklandii (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Bathonian of the UK and the relationships of Middle Jurassic theropods. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158(4): 882-935. Oxford University Press (OUP). doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00569.x

Cited by genera

  • Condorraptor

    Recovered Condorraptor as a piatnitzkysaurid megalosauroid, sister to Piatnitzkysaurus.

  • Eustreptospondylus

    Recovered it as the basalmost megalosaurid outside the two subfamilies

  • Lourinhanosaurus

    Recovered Lourinhanosaurus with Metriacanthosaurus and Sinraptor.

  • Megalosaurus

    Comprehensive redescription and autapomorphy-based diagnosis of Megalosaurus bucklandii, restricting the taxon to the Bathonian of Britain; includes a phylogenetic analysis of basal tetanurans.

  • Monolophosaurus

    Recovered it as a basal megalosauroid allied with Chuandongocoelurus

  • Poekilopleuron

    Recovered it as an allosauroid rather than an afrovenatorine megalosaurid

  • Streptospondylus

    Recovered it more basally as Tetanurae incertae sedis, not confidently megalosauroid

  • Xuanhanosaurus

    Recovered Xuanhanosaurus as a basal megalosauroid, in the clade that became Piatnitzkysauridae.

Cited by clades

  • Megalosauridae

    Redescribed Megalosaurus, listed the synapomorphies of Megalosauridae, and, with Magnosaurus removed, recovered Eustreptospondylus as the sister taxon of all other megalosaurids.

  • Megalosauroidea

    Defined Megalosauroidea as Megalosaurus bucklandii and all taxa closer to it than to Allosaurus fragilis or Passer domesticus, treating Spinosauroidea as a junior synonym.