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"Dwergallosaurus" is an informal name given to a group of carnosaurian dinosaurs that lived during the Early Cretaceous in the south of Australia. The fossil are interpreted as belonging to a small relative of Allosaurus, a formidable predator of the Jurassic period. "Dwergallosaurus" was probably about two meters high and about six meters long. Until the discovery of this species, it was assumed that Allosaurids had gone extinct thirty million years earlier.

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  • "Dwergallosaurus" is an informal name given to a group of carnosaurian dinosaurs that lived during the Early Cretaceous in the south of Australia. The fossil are interpreted as belonging to a small relative of Allosaurus, a formidable predator of the Jurassic period. "Dwergallosaurus" was probably about two meters high and about six meters long. Until the discovery of this species, it was assumed that Allosaurids had gone extinct thirty million years earlier.
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  • "Dwergallosaurus" is an informal name given to a group of carnosaurian dinosaurs that lived during the Early Cretaceous in the south of Australia. The fossil are interpreted as belonging to a small relative of Allosaurus, a formidable predator of the Jurassic period. "Dwergallosaurus" was probably about two meters high and about six meters long. Until the discovery of this species, it was assumed that Allosaurids had gone extinct thirty million years earlier. The fossil consists of two damaged pieces of only a single bone, which in 1979 was found by Tim Flannery in 1981 and described by Molnar, the registration NMV Pl50070. Because this finding was rather weak, has refrained from appointing a separate species. In terms of morphology, it appears that the most bone of Allosaurus and therefore called it an informal allosaur dwarf or what formal Allosaurus sp.. Further discoveries will tell whether this identification was correct. In 2009, paleontologist Scott Hocknull claimed that the "Dwergallosaurus" was identical to, or a precursor of at least one relative was subsequently occurring Australovenator. In that case it would not be an allosaurid but a more derived member of the Allosauroidea.
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