Describer

Marsh, 1884

Time

Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian

Classification

Saurischia Theropoda Tetanurae Carnosauria Allosauridae

Diet

Carnivore

Fossilsite

Canyon City Quarry near Garden Park, Morrison Formation, Colorado, US

Fall Under

Allosaurus

Info

Allosaurus (Marsh, 1877) = Creosaurus (Marsh, 1878) Epanterias (Cope, 1878) Labrosaurus (Marsh, 1879) ?Saurophagus (Ray, 1941)

Allosaurus > Allosaurus fragilis (Marsh, 1877) Laelaps trihedrodon (Cope, 1877) Creosaurus atrox (Marsh, 1878) Epanteris amplexus (Cope, 1878) Hypsirhophus discurus (1) [partim] (Cope, 1878) Allosaurus lucaris (Marsh, 1878) Allosaurus ferox (Marsh, 1896) ?Saurophagus maximus (Ray, 1941) ?Labrosaurus ferox (Marsh, 1884) Camptosaurus amplus (Marsh, 1879) = Camptonotus amplus (Marsh, 1879) Allosaurus whitei (Pickering, 1995)

Allosaurus > ?Allosaurus tendagurensis (Janensch, 1925)

Allosaurus > Allosaurus europaeus (Mateus, Walen and Antunes 2006)

USNM 2315 the type material consist of a lower jaw that was damaged during the life of the animal, possibly the result of an injury (fight with another theropod ?) or from a fall. The original publication was by Marsh in the American Journal of Science, volume 27, page 333, in 1884.