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Megalosauroidea
| Megalosauroids | |
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| Torvosaurus skeletal mount, Museum of Ancient Life | |
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| Spinosaurus skeletal mount, National Geographic Museum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | †Carnosauria (?) |
| Superfamily: | †Megalosauroidea Huxley, 1889 |
| Type species | |
| †Megalosaurus bucklandii Mantell, 1827
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Megalosauroidea (meaning 'great/big lizard forms') is a superfamily (or clade) of tetanuran theropod dinosaurs that lived from the Middle Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous period. The group is defined as Megalosaurus bucklandii and all taxa sharing a more recent common ancestor with it than with Allosaurus fragilis or Passer domesticus.[2] Members of the group include Spinosaurus, Megalosaurus, and Torvosaurus. They are possibly paraphyletic in nature with respect to Allosauroidea.
- ^ Lacerda, M. B. S.; Bittencourt, J. S.; Hutchinson, J. R. (2023). "Macroevolutionary patterns in the pelvis, stylopodium and zeugopodium of megalosauroid theropod dinosaurs and their importance for locomotor function". Royal Society Open Science. 10 (8). 230481. Bibcode:2023RSOS...1030481L. doi:10.1098/rsos.230481. PMC 10427828. PMID 37593714.
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