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Definition of Ceratosaurus

1. Noun. Primitive medium-sized theropod; swift-running bipedal carnivorous dinosaur having grasping hands with sharp claws and a short horn between the nostrils; Jurassic in North America.

Definition of Ceratosaurus

1. n. A carnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the skull bears a bony horn core on the united nasal bones. See Illustration in Appendix.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ceratosaurus

Literary usage of Ceratosaurus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Animals of the Past by Frederic Augustus Lucas (1901)
"species, and from our West comes a near relative, ceratosaurus, the nose-horned lizard, a queer beast with tiny fore legs, powerful, sharp- clawed hind feet ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1884)
"The nearly perfect skeleton of ceratosaurus presents several characters not ... The skull of ceratosaurus is very large in proportion to the rest of the ..."

3. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural by Richard Lydekker (1888)
"ceratosaurus nasicornis, Marsh.—Left lateral view of skull; from the Upper Jurassic of North America. |. a, nares; b, bony prominence; c, ..."

4. Creatures of Other Days by Henry Neville Hutchinson, William Henry Flower (1894)
"1 The ceratosaurus is a good typical example of a carnivorous Dinosaur; it was of considerable size, ... Skull of ceratosaurus nasicornis. (After Marsh. ..."

5. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1917)
"MOOK, STUDY OF THE MORRISON FORMATION ceratosaurus nasicornis Marsh ceratosaurus nasicornis Marsh, Principal Characters of American Jurassic Dinosaurs. ..."

6. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1901)
"... and ceratosaurus among the Theropoda, and in Ornithomimus; ... the latter genus and in ceratosaurus ; the regular increase of the phalangeal numbers of ..."

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