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Ceratosaurus

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Cer`a`to`sau´rus
n.1.(Paleon.) A swift-running bipedal carnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the skull bears a bony short horn between the nostrils on the united nasal bones. See Illustration in Appendix.
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Noun1.Ceratosaurus - primitive medium-sized theropodceratosaurus - 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
ceratosaur
bird-footed dinosaur, theropod, theropod dinosaur - any of numerous carnivorous dinosaurs of the Triassic to Cretaceous with short forelimbs that walked or ran on strong hind legs
suborder Ceratosaura - primitive saurischian dinosaurs
coelophysis - one of the oldest known dinosaurs; late Triassic; cannibalistic
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Ceratosaurus Fossils found in: Fremont County, Colorado, USA from 1883 up to 1884 Estimated Height: 2 meters or 6 feet and 6 inches Estimated Length: 6 meters or 20 feet Estimated Weight: 1 tonne The Ceratosaurs or the so-called ?
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