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Carcharodontosauridae
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Taxonomy
Carcharodontosauridae was named by Stromer (1931). It is not extant. It was considered monophyletic by Benson et al. (2010) and de Azevedo et al. (2013).
It was synonymized subjectively with Megalosauridae by Steel (1970).
It was assigned to Theropoda by Stromer (1931); to Carnosauria by Currie and Carpenter (2000) and Coria and Currie (2006); to Allosauroidea by Rauhut (1995), Sereno et al. (1996), Larsson (1996), Holtz (1996), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Rauhut (2003), Holtz et al. (2004), Yates (2005), Novas et al. (2005), Brusatte and Sereno (2007), Brusatte and Sereno (2007), Brusatte et al. (2009) and Candeiro et al. (2012); and to Carcharodontosauria by Benson et al. (2010), Carrano et al. (2012) and de Azevedo et al. (2013).
It was synonymized subjectively with Megalosauridae by Steel (1970).
It was assigned to Theropoda by Stromer (1931); to Carnosauria by Currie and Carpenter (2000) and Coria and Currie (2006); to Allosauroidea by Rauhut (1995), Sereno et al. (1996), Larsson (1996), Holtz (1996), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Rauhut (2003), Holtz et al. (2004), Yates (2005), Novas et al. (2005), Brusatte and Sereno (2007), Brusatte and Sereno (2007), Brusatte et al. (2009) and Candeiro et al. (2012); and to Carcharodontosauria by Benson et al. (2010), Carrano et al. (2012) and de Azevedo et al. (2013).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1931 | Carcharodontosauridae Stromer p. 19 |
| 1966 | Megalosaurus inexpectatus del Corro p. 282 figs. 1-3 |
| 1995 | Carcharodontosauridae Rauhut p. 370 |
| 1996 | Carcharodontosauridae Holtz, Jr. p. 42A |
| 1996 | Carcharodontosauridae Larsson p. 47A |
| 1996 | Carcharodontosauridae Sereno et al. p. 989 fig. 4 |
| 1997 | Carcharodontosauridae Sereno p. 456 |
| 1998 | Carcharodontosauridae Sereno p. 64 |
| 2000 | Carcharodontosauridae Currie and Carpenter p. 236 fig. 15 |
| 2003 | Carcharodontosauridae Rauhut p. 147 |
| 2004 | Carcharodontosauridae Holtz, Jr. et al. p. 75 |
| 2005 | Carcharodontosauridae Novas et al. p. 226 |
| 2005 | Carcharodontosauridae Yates p. 118 fig. 9 |
| 2006 | Carcharodontosauridae Coria and Currie p. 108 fig. 35 |
| 2007 | Carcharodontosauridae Brusatte and Sereno p. 54A |
| 2009 | Carcharodontosauridae Brusatte et al. p. 1055 fig. 3 |
| 2010 | Carcharodontosauridae Benson et al. p. 75 |
| 2012 | Carcharodontosauridae Candeiro et al. p. 326 |
| 2012 | Carcharodontosauridae Carrano et al. p. 248 fig. 7 |
| 2013 | Carcharodontosauridae de Azevedo et al. |
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