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Taxon: Family †Megalosauridae Fitzinger, 1843 (dinosaur)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  L. Fitzinger, 1843, orth. corr.
Original name & rank:  Fitzinger, L. 1843. Syst. Rept.: 35 ("Megalosauri. (Meyer.)").
Subsequent spelling:  Bonaparte, C.L. 1850. Editio altera reformata. E.J. Brill, [Lugdini Batavorum]
Description/Diagnosis in English:  Huxley, T.H. 1870. Quart. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 26 (1): 34 ("Megalosauridæ").

Attributes

Justified emendation of suffix (: orth. corr.) [ICZN, 1999: Arts. 29.2, 34.1 (family)] Ref: S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present. Syst. Nat. 2000: 17 Dec 2018.

Types

Type: †Megalosaurus (Genus) Buckland, 1822 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: App. (p. 621); [<12 Oct 2025]. [inferred]

Variants

Clade-based name: †Megalosauridae (Clade) Bonaparte 1850 [Allain 2002] Ref: M.T. Carrano et al., 2012: App. 1 (p. 291). [implicit]

Synonyms

Including: †Eustreptospondylidae (Family) Paul, 1988
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