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Description
Allosaurus fragilis
Named by Othniel Charles Marsh, 1877
Diet: Carnivore (Prey included Stegosaurus, smaller theropods such as Ornitholestes, ornithopods such as Camptosaurus, and mostly the young of the sauropods such as Diplodocus, Apatosaurus, and Camarasaurus; it may have also been an opportunistic scavenger)
Type: Carnosauria (Allosaurid) theropod dinosaur
Size: 28 feet (8.5 meters) long and around 1.8 tons [Note: Some of the fragmentary remains show that some can grow to 39 feet (12 meters) long]
Region: North America (Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming USA)
Age: Late Jurassic (155 to 148 million BC; Kimmeridgian to Tithonian)
Rivals: Torvosaurus tanneri, Epanterias (Which may be an Allosaurus species), and Saurophaganax
Episode: Time of the Titans
Info: As deadly and fearsome as Allosaurus was and one of the major predators of its time and place (Morrison Formation), the estimate bite was surprisingly weak, far less powerful than a lion's. But recent studies show that Allosaurus used its head like a hatchet, using its strong neck muscles to ram the teeth of its jaw into the body of its prey and while during impact, its sharp-serrated teeth tear through its victim's flesh and causing it to bleed to death.
Note: Based on while pose based on the skeletal display of an Allosaurus attacking a mother and young Barosaurus in the main entrance hall of New York's American Museum of Natural History.
Well its been a long time coming! After seeing Zootopia in theaters, I've finally made and posted one of the most famous theropod dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic period! The Lion of the Jurassic!
There's more famous Jurassic giants coming up!
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Apparently the whole "Allosaurus had a weak bite force" thing has been disproven.
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Ok! So that means it had a powerful bite (but not like T. rex) and did still used its jaws and neck like an ax?
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This is how I will always picture Allosaurus' colors 😍
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Actually, Allosaurus may have not been the top predator of the Jurassic. The role might actually have belonged to either Saurophaganax or Torvosaurus.
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Actually saurophaganax is a species of allosaurus.
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It’s an Allosaurid. Also, Saurophaganax as smaller than Trovasaurus. The Allosaurids were just more common
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Strangely, Wikipedia states that Epanterias appears in the ending of the final episode of Walking with Monsters.
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To be honest, T. rex is my 2nd favorite dinosaur. My number one favorite is Allosaurus.
And i personally call Allosaurus "The Jurassic Horror" because at that time, there was nothing as horrifying as Allosaurus. Allosaurus was basically the T. rex before there was one!
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so did allosaurus actually have those tail quills?
or is that just speculative
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As such, good picture, but I do not think it realistic that Allosaurus had feathers. I think that only Tyrannosaurids, Dromaeosaurids, Therizinosaurids, Oviraptorids, Ornithomimids and Troodontids had feathers.
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Too bad we have evidence that dinos that aren't those like Sinosauropteryx, Sciurumimus, Concavenator, Tianyulong, Psittacosaurus, Juravenator, and Kulindadromeus have feathers or at least quills. Look all them up and look where they are in the family to prove my point, please. Allosaurus may've had had Concavenator arm quills. I'm not trying to be mean, just letting you know.
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I don't believe they had quills. Not even Tyrannoosaurus had feathers?
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We'll have to find out, but you already mentioned tyrannosaurids. All the dinosaurs you mentioned are coelurosaurs, while all but 3 I mentioned are not coelurosaurs.
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As far as we know they didn't have feathers too.
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T. rex? Yeah, we don't know, but its' most likely due it its' related to 2 known feathered, Dilong paradoxus and Yutyrannus huali. Based on what we know on other feathered dinosaurs in terms of Allosaurus, Concavenator is the closely related one to it and both could have arm quills. Anyway, the point of my first replay was to tell you is that there were more feathered dinosaurs in other families other than what you mentioned (Tyrannosaurids, Dromaeosaurids, Therizinosaurids,Oviraptorids, Ornithomimids and Troodontids). To make your comment more redundant (trying not to be mean with this wording), the first feathered non-avian dinosaur was Sinosauropteryx, was a Compsognathid and you didn't mentioned that family.
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After that what I've heard, Tyrannosaurus and Megalosaurs didn't have feathers most likely.
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We won't know yet until they find the fossils, so we'll have to base our guesses on their relatives. Anyway, I'm talking about it right now, so this will be my last reply (Note: If you are saying that Allosaurus is a megalosaurid, Allosaurus isn't a megalosaurid, but a allosaurid carnosauria).
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Ok. But I don't believe they were all feathered.
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My beautiful, beautiful childhood, thank you so much!!
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I love the new protofeathers on it!
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Thank you!
I love Allosaurus! The Lion of the Late Jurassic and one of the alpha predators of the Morisson Formation, despite living alongside larger theropods like Saurophaganax and Epanterias (or another Allosaurus species)
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You're very welcome !
The Allosaurus sounds more like wolves especially considering the possibility that thy could operate on groups or packs.
The bigger subspecies (Epanterias) and species (Saurophaganax) sound more likely as Pumas\Lions
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The king of the Jurassic himself!
Oh, if only he (along with all other theropods) were intelligent...
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Actually, forget what I said.
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General intelligence.
The smartest dinosaur, Troodon, was only as smart as an emu or opossum, which, to say, is not that smart.
That means that dinosaurs are on the same level of intelligence as amphibians, fish, and arthropods...
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u think dinosaurs are dumb because of their small brains? Let Scott Sampson elucidate.
Skip to 15:54
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No, you got it all wrong.
I never said anything about small brains. Small brains and stupdity are almost very different.
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Yea, but brains are overrated.
Besides, how do low levels of intelligence explain Maiasaura nesting grounds? How does it explain large herds of Centrosaurus? Or for that matter, how do low levels of intelligence explain whole family groups of Albertosaurus? Just saying. The majority of amphibians, fish and Arthropoda don't do that. Most likely, that's just human beings proudly bragging about their "talent of outsmarting everything".
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