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Jurassic and Cretaceous
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theropoda
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
order of dinosaurs, from ther- "beast" + podos genitive of pous "foot" (see foot (n.)). So called because the structure of the feet resembled quadrupeds rather than birds. Related: Theropod .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Theropoda \The*rop"o*da\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. qh`r a beast + ?, ?, foot.] (Paleon.) An order of carnivorous dinosaurs in which the feet are less birdlike, and hence more like those of an ordinary quadruped, than in the Ornithopoda. It includes the rapacious ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Theropoda ( or , from Greek "wild beast" and "foot") or theropods are a group of saurischian dinosaurs . Theropods were ancestrally carnivorous , although a number of theropod groups evolved herbivory , omnivory , piscivory , and insectivory . Theropods ...