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allosaur

n. Any of several huge carnivorous dinosaurs, of the superfamily Allosauroidea, from the late Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods

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allosaur

n. late Jurassic carnivorous dinosaur; similar to but somewhat smaller than tyrannosaurus [syn: allosaurus]

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These fenestrae are characteristic of all theropods, and indeed of all primitive dinosaurs, but in allosaurs and abelisaurs they were relatively larger than in others.

For the mammals of Antarctica, spring was made more interesting by the possibility that from any snowbank there might suddenly erupt a clutch of ravenous allosaur chicks, snapping and squabbling in pursuit of their first meal.

Gawain, the ghost of a dragon slayer who was killed by an allosaur, who needed an heir.

To her mind Zephyr spent far too much time going over old texts and bits of pottery, hiking up to caves that only contained paintings instead of allosaur bones.

If we have no oterosaur and no allosaur and no archaeopteryx, so be it: we may have them yet.

It is clear that allosaurs and tyrannosaurs must have had different ways of hunting and feeding.

This particular fisher was a widow because her mate had been eaten by allosaurs a couple of days before.

The allosaurs too went into steep decline across the supercontinent as their prey animals became scarce.

Armed with poison-tipped spears, and using the claws of their hands and feet, they attacked the matriarch as allosaurs once had, striking and retreating.

No doubt real allosaurs were not subject to blind collisions, but these were mere machines.

Young tyrannosaurs and baby allosaurs, eager to devour the gazelles on the deck above.

Armed with poison-tipped spears, and using the claws of their hands and feet, they attacked the matriarch as allosaurs once had, striking and retreating.

Ralibar Vooz concontinued his progress through the Cavern of the Archetypes: a progress often delayed by the alimentary designs of crude, misty-stomached allosaurs, pterodactyls, pterandons, stegosaurs, and other carnivora of the prime.