Theropoda - Wikipedia
Theropoda (/ θ ɪəˈr ɒ p ə d ə /; [2] from ancient Greek θηρίο-ποδός [θηρίον, (therion) "wild beast"; πούς, ποδός (pous, podos) "foot"]), whose members are known as theropods, is an extant dinosaur clade that is characterized by hollow bones and three toes and claws on each limb.
Theropod | Carnivorous, Bipedal Dinosaurs | Britannica
2024年10月8日 · theropod, any member of the dinosaur subgroup Theropoda, which includes all the flesh-eating dinosaurs. Theropods were the most diverse group of saurischian (“lizard-hipped”) dinosaurs, ranging from the crow-sized Microraptor to the huge Tyrannosaurus rex, which weighed six tons or more.
Theropods | Understanding Earth's Most Ferocious Predators - The Dinosaurs
2024年4月12日 · Theropods include the most terrifying dinosaurs that ever walked the earth, from T. rex to Velociraptor to Spinosaurus. They are also one of the most remarkable groups for their close relationship to birds.
Dinosaur - Theropods, Extinction, Fossils | Britannica
6 天之前 · Dinosaur - Theropods, Extinction, Fossils: Theropoda includes all the known carnivorous dinosaurs and birds. They have carnivorous dentitions, large, recurved claws on the fingers, and epipophyses on the neck vertebrae. Ceratosauria includes Ceratosaurus and all theropods more closely related to it than birds.
Theropod Dinosaurs – Facts, List, Pictures - Extinct Animals
Dinosaurs with hollow bones and three claws and digits on each limb are widely classified as theropods. Interestingly this includes both herbivores like Therizinosaurus cheloniformis and Troodon formosus and carnivores like Tyrannosaurus rex and Velociraptor mongoliensis .
Theropod dinosaur diversity of the lower English Wealden: …
3 天之前 · Several historically notable theropod dinosaurs are known from the Wealden Supergroup but fossils of the clade are generally rare, and our understanding of their diversity across the whole of the succession is patchy (Naish 2011).Few specimens are represented by articulated skeletons, many lack accurate locality or horizon data, and complicated taxonomic …
Tyrannosaurus - Wikipedia
Tyrannosaurus (/ tɪˌrænəˈsɔːrəs, taɪ -/) [a] is a genus of large theropod dinosaur. The type species Tyrannosaurus rex (rex meaning 'king' in Latin), often shortened to T. rex or colloquially T-Rex, is one of the best represented theropods.
How Dinosaurs Shrank and Became Birds - Scientific American
2015年6月12日 · Modern birds descended from a group of two-legged dinosaurs known as theropods, whose members include the towering Tyrannosaurus rex and the smaller velociraptors. The theropods most closely ...
Major Groups of Dinosaurs - U.S. National Park Service
2022年7月8日 · Theropods are the classic bipedal carnivorous dinosaurs, from Coelophysis to Tyrannosaurus, and also include birds. Sauropodomorphs include the enormous quadrupedal, herbivorous long-necked, long-tailed sauropods (Brachiosaurus, Diplodocus) …
Tetanurae - Wikipedia
Tetanurae (/ˌtɛtəˈnjuːriː/ or "stiff tails") is a clade that includes most theropod dinosaurs, including megalosauroids, allosauroids, and coelurosaurs (which includes tyrannosauroids, ornithomimosaurs, compsognathids and maniraptorans, the latter including living birds). [ 1 ] .