[D] Labrosaurus ferox
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.