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Definition of Genus Ceratosaurus
1. Noun. Primitive saurischian carnivorous dinosaurs.
Group relationships: Suborder Ceratosaura
Member holonyms: Coelophysis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Ceratosaurus
Literary usage of Genus Ceratosaurus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1889)
"The most perfectly known of American Theropoda, and by far the most interesting,
is the genus Ceratosaurus, founded by the author, in 1884. ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1885)
"Genus : Ceratosaurus. The four orders defined above, which the author first
established for the reception of the American Jurassic Dinosaurs, ..."
3. Geology, Physical and Historical by Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland (1916)
"... dinosaurs were especially ornamented; one genus (Ceratosaurus), however,
possessed a horn on the nose, and a row of small bones embedded in the FIG. ..."