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Allosaurus Facts
Allosaurus was a top meat-eating hunter of the Jurassic, smaller than T. rex but fast and powerful.
- The fossil 'Big Al' is a famous nearly complete Allosaurus.
- The Late Jurassic carnivore Allosaurus ('different lizard') lived in what is now North America — the top predator of its Jurassic ecosystem.
- Allosaurus means 'strange lizard'. It was a Late Jurassic carnivore from North America — abundant in the Morrison Formation.
- Allosaurus was a big hunter but smaller than T. rex.
- Allosaurus means 'different lizard'.
- Allosaurus was a top hunter of the Jurassic.
- Saurophaganax was a giant Allosaurus relative.
- The Allosaurus specimen Big Al displays numerous pathologies, including broken and infected bones.
- Allosaurus was a carnivore theropod from the Late Jurassic.
- The name Allosaurus means 'different lizard'.
- Fossils of Allosaurus have been found in North America.
- Allosaurus lived during the Late Jurassic in what is now North America.
- Big Al is an Allosaurus specimen notable for its many healed and unhealed injuries.