T. rex

Juvenile T. rexes were light and agile before they leveled up into the adults we’re more familiar with. (The physical discrepancies between younger and older T. rexes can be so vast that experts have argued over whether certain specimens are different species altogether, rather than different ages.)

2021 February 25, Cara Giaimo, “The Outsized Influence of Teen T. Rex and Other Young Dinosaurs”, in The New York Times:

Tyrannosaurus rex
Tyrannosaurus rex#English


velociraptor

From New Latin Velociraptor genus name, from vēlōx (“swift”) + raptor (“thief”).
The application to Deinonychus came about because Gregory S. Paul proposed that Velociraptor and Deinonychus were the same genus and this idea was taken up in the book leading to the Jurassic Park film series.

This is my favorite velociraptor, and that is saying a lot....That this species is sunk into Velociraptor is rather unfortunate, because the name Deinonychus Ostrom 1969a is a fine one.

1988, Gregory S. Paul, Predatory Dinosaurs of the World, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, pages 366–7:


Tyrannosaurus rex

en-noun

Tyrannosaurus rex (plural Tyrannosaurus rex or Tyrannosaurus rexes or Tyrannosauri reges)

Tyrannosaurus rex (plural)
Tyrannosaurus rexes (plural)
Tyrannosauri reges (plural)

/taɪˌɹænəˈsɔːɹəs ˈɹɛks/

/təˌɹænəˈsɔːɹəs ˈɹɛks/

Some of the most spectacular beasts in East Coast museums happen to be Tyrannosaurus rexes from Montana.

1999, Fred Setterberg, America: True Stories of Life on the Road, →ISBN, page 244:

"Now, Dr. Richgels, you picked a folder from the story box. Could you show us the one that you picked?" Mine shows two Tyrannosaurus rexes fighting […]

2003, Donald J. Richgels, Going to Kindergarten: A Year with an Outstanding Teacher, →ISBN, page 222:

So Lyell's view is not inconsistent with Dollo's Law of Irreversibility in that, under awful (i.e., evolutionary) changes, biological organisms would not follow the same unlikely path regenerating, say, DNA-exact Tyrannosaurus rexes from ancestral chicken stock in some future age.

2009, Allen A. Debus, Prehistoric Monsters: The Real and Imagined Creatures of the Past, →ISBN, page 251:

A giant carnivorous theropod dinosaur from the Cretaceous period.


Theropoda

Ancient Greek θήρ (thḗr, “beast, fantastic animal”) + πούς (poús, “foot/feet”)

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A taxonomic suborder within the order Saurischia – a group of bipedal dinosaurs, theropods, ancestral to birds.

Neotheropoda

†Liliensternus; †Tachiraptor, †Zupaysaurus, †Shuangbaisaurus - genera in Neotheropoda


tyrannosaur

So far, Druckenmiller and his team have dug up species from seven different dino families: from big duck-billed dinos, ceretopsians, and tyrannosaurs to smaller thescelosaurs, leptoceratops, dromaeosaurs, and troodontids.

2021 September 21, Karen Hopkin, “Dinosaurs Lived—and Made Little Dinos—in the Arctic”, in Scientific American:

Instead it belongs to a new species of tyrannosaur, which the researchers have dubbed Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis in a paper published on January 11 in Scientific Reports.

2024 November 1, Meghan Bartels, “Enigmatic Dinosaur Skull Sparks Debate over Tyrannosaur Evolution”, in Scientific American:

Any large bipedal carnivorous dinosaur, of the family Tyrannosauridae, that lived in North America during the Cretaceous period.


tyrannosaurus

en-noun

tyrannosaurus (plural tyrannosauri or tyrannosauruses)

tyrannosauri (plural)
tyrannosauruses (plural)

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From New Latin Tyrannosaurus, from Ancient Greek τύραννος (túrannos, “tyrant”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”).

der

A large carnivorous dinosaur, of the genus Tyrannosaurus, found in North America during the late Cretaceous period.


theropod

Any bipedal carnivorous dinosaur, of the suborder Theropoda, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.


gigantoraptor

A gigantic birdlike theropod dinosaur, Gigantoraptor erlianensis, from the late Cretaceous period of China


coelurosaurian

Any dinosaur of the taxonomic group Coelurosauria


allosaurus

en-noun

allosaurus (plural allosauri or allosauruses)

allosauri (plural)
allosauruses (plural)

From Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos, “other, different”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”).

der

A large, carnivorous dinosaur, of genus Allosaurus, that lived in the Jurassic period.


dromaeosaurid

(paleontology) A bird-like theropod dinosaur of the family Dromaeosauridae.


maniraptoran

Unlike lizards and many other dinosaur groups, maniraptorans (including birds) do not shed their skin in large sections, as this would interfere with the feathers.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 125:

(biology) Any of a group of advanced theropods, of the clade Maniraptora, thought to be ancestors of both dinosaurs and birds.


tyranozaur

tyranozaur (nominative singular)
tyranozaury (nominative plural)
tyranozaura (genitive singular)
tyranozaurów (genitive plural)
tyranozaurowi (dative singular)
tyranozaurom (dative plural)
tyranozaura (accusative singular)
tyranozaury (accusative plural)
tyranozaurem (instrumental singular)
tyranozaurami (instrumental plural)
tyranozaurze (locative singular)
tyranozaurach (locative plural)
tyranozaurze (singular vocative)
tyranozaury (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek τύραννος (túrannos) + σαῦρος (saûros). Doublet of tyran and tyrania.


abelisaur

Juvenile T. rexes were light and agile before they leveled up into the adults we’re more familiar with. […] Other megatheropods, including abelisaurs and tarbosaurs, also grew from turkey-like hatchlings to bus-sized behemoths over the course of their lives.

(zoology) Any dinosaur of the superfamily Abelisauroidea.


dromaeosaur

In communities with megatheropods, Ms. Schroeder and colleagues found what they call a “carnivore gap”: a large swath of medium-size niches that were empty. For instance, the Hell Creek Formation, a well-studied fossil area that stretches from modern day Utah to Alberta, was once home to 630-pound grown-up dromaeosaurs, 7-ton adult T. rexes — and no mature meat-eaters in between.

Any bird-like theropod dinosaur of the family Dromaeosauridae.


allosauroid

From the clade name Allosauroidea, first proposed by Currie & Zhao in 1993.

(paleontology) Any member of a superfamily clade of dinosaurs including the sinoraptorids, carcharodontosaurids and allosaurids.


oviraptorid

(zoology) A member of the Oviraptoridae, birdlike maniraptoran dinosaurs.


oviraptoran

Any of several birdlike dinosaurs of the family †Oviraptoridae.


troodontid

From translingual Troodontidae, equivalent to translingual Troodon + -id.

Any member of the family †Troodontidae of small, bird-like theropod dinosaurs with large brains, large eyes, and a retractable claw on the second toe of each hind foot, similar to a farmer's sickle, used for slashing at prey.


avialan

Any animal belonging to the clade Avialae, including all birds and a family of dinosaurian relatives


coelurosaur

Any of several small theropod dinosaurs of the clade Coelurosauria


therizinosauroid

Any dinosaur of the superfamily Therizinosauroidea


tyrannosauroid

Two skeletons of the oldest known tyrannosauroid have been discovered in what used to be wetland in the Gobi desert of western China.

2006 Feb, NewScientist, page 19, column 1:

The discovery of simple, shaftless feathers on Dilong paradoxus, a 2-metre-long basal tyrannosauroid from the early Cretaceous of China, led to the suggestion that the tyrannosauroids as a group were feathered.

2017 June 7, Susannah Lydon, The Guardian:

Any dinosaur of the superfamily Tyrannosauroidea.


megalosaur

As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill.

1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:

A carnivorous dinosaur of the family Megalosauridae.


ceratosaur

(zoology) Any of many dinosaurs of the infraorder Ceratosauria.


tetanuran

The oldest tetanuran, the crested allosauroid Cryolophosaurus, was discovered in Lower Jurassic rocks on Antarctica and is quite similar to allosauroids from Upper Jurassic rocks on several continents.

1999 June 25, Paul C. Sereno, “The Evolution of Dinosaurs”, in Science, volume 284, number 5423, →DOI, pages 2137–2147:

Any theropod of the clade Tetanurae, all theropods, including birds, that are more closely related to modern birds than to the genus †Ceratosaurus.


allosaur

Any of several huge carnivorous dinosaurs, of the superfamily Allosauroidea, from the late Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods

alossauro

any dinosaur of the superfamily Allosauroidea


ornithomimosaur

Any of several theropod dinosaurs, of the clade Ornithomimosauria, that bore a superficial resemblance to modern ostriches


giganotosaurus

Borrowed from translingual Giganotosaurus, from giga- (“large”) + noto- (“southern”) + -saurus (“lizard”).

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Any of several very large, carnivorous dinosaurs of the subfamily Giganotosaurinae, from the Cretaceous period.


oviraptor

From scientific Latin Oviraptor (genus name), from Latin ōvi- (“ovi-”) + raptor (because it is believed to have fed on the eggs of other dinosaurs).

In all three fossil samples, the concentration of biliverdin is higher than that of protoporphyrin, suggesting that these oviraptor eggs originally were blue-green.

2017 October 11, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian:

Any of several bipedal dinosaurs, of the genus Oviraptor, from the late Cretaceous period.


compy

I have NT 4.0 setup^([sic]) on my compy and would also like to have win95.

1998, Eric Packwood, “Installing Win95 when having NT 4.0”, in comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc (Usenet):


compy

As used in the novel (and subsequent motion picture) Jurassic Park; shortened from Compsognathus, with -y.

We picked up another compy.

(informal) A member of the genus Compsognathus or Procompsognathus.


albertosaurus

A large carnivorous tyrannosaur dinosaur, of genus Albertosaurus, discovered in Alberta, Canada.


spinosaurus

From New Latin Spinosaurus, from Latin spīna (“a thorn; a prickle, spine”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”).

der

A large, extinct, carnivorous dinosaur of genus Spinosaurus, with a long snout like that of a crocodile and with a sail on its back. It is considered to be the largest theropod dinosaur.


alvarezsaurid

Any small, long-legged running dinosaur of the family †Alvarezsauridae.


alvarezsauroid

Any small, long-legged running dinosaur of the superfamily Alvarezsauroidea


calamosaur

Any small theropod dinosaur of the genus †Calamosaurus


abelisaurid

(paleontology) Any of the Abelisauridae, a family of ceratosaurian theropod dinosaurs.


ceratosaurian

(zoology) Of or relating to the dinosaur infraorder Ceratosauria.


ceratosaurian

(zoology) Any of the dinosaur infraorder Ceratosauria.


deinonychosaur

Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria


allosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Allosauridae.


avimimid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Avimimidae.


baryonychid

(zoology) Any of the dinosaurs in the family Baryonychidae, a synonym for the Spinosauridae.


caenagnathid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Caenagnathidae.


carcharodontosaurid

(zoology) Any member of the family †Carcharodontosauridae of dinosaurs.


ceratosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Ceratosauridae.


coelophysid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Coelophysidae.


coelurid

(zoology) Any member of the often revised family Coeluridae of dinosaurs.


compsognathid

(zoology) Any member of the family †Compsognathidae of dinosaurs.


deinocheirid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Deinocheiridae.


dilophosaurid

(zoology) Any member of the family †Dilophosauridae of dinosaurs.


dryptosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Dryptosauridae.


elmisaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Elmisauridae, now considered to be the caenagnathid subfamily Elmisaurinae.


ichthyornithid

(zoology) Any avialan in the family Ichthyornithidae.


hesperornithid

From translingual Hesperornithidae, from Hesperornis (“genus name”).

Finally, the Volgorod locality, Maastrichtian in age, has yielded two dinosaurs (an indeterminate hesperornithid and a basal theropod) and a few turtles.

2011, David B. Weishampel, Coralia-Maria Jianu, Transylvanian Dinosaurs, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 109:

The arrival of these hesperornithids in more southern waters during the early Campanian may indicate a cooler climate, closer shores, adaptations to changes in prey, or other factors.

2017, Michael J. Everhart, Oceans of Kansas, Indiana University Press, page 365:

2020, Alan Feduccia, Romancing the Birds and Dinosaurs, Universal Publishers (BrownWalker Press), page 83,
9. Cretaceous foot-propelled divers, the hesperornithids, were grouped cladistically with loons (Eocene) and grebes (Miocene) as a clade, which would require re-evolution of teeth from an edentulous ancestor.

(paleontology) Any extinct avialan in the family Hesperornithidae.


megalosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur of the family Megalosauridae.


neovenatorid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Neovenatoridae.


noasaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Noasauridae.


ornithomimid

(zoology) Any of the family Ornithomimidae of dinosaurs.


ornitholestid

E. H. Colbert (pers. commun. to Harshbarger, 1957) suggested that Segisaurus looks very much like an ornitholestid; Ornitholestes is found in the Morrison Formation (Jurassic).

1975, Dudley W. Bolyard, Deep drilling frontiers of the central Rocky Mountains, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, →OCLC, page 114:

In proportions, and especially in their uncompressed central metatarsal, Avisaurus retains the conservative condition seen in such basal theopods as Coelophysis and Ceratosaurus (Fig. 2), and thus retains a basal condition compared to derived theropods and Archaeopteryx, which have proximally pinched central metatarsi (eg, compsognathids, ornitholestids, allosaurids, tyrannosaurids, elmisaurids, ornithomimids, dromaeosaurs and saurornithoidids; Paul, 1984).

1985, MK Brett-Surman, “A new family of bird-like dinosaurs linking Laurasia and Gondwanaland”, in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, volume 5, number 2, page 133:

Aublysodonts and tyrannosaurs appear to have been the culmination of the ornitholestid-allosaur-tyrannosaur group.

1988, Gregory S. Paul, Predatory Dinosaurs of the World: A Complete Illustrated Guide, Simon & Schuster, →OCLC:

(zoology, very rare) Any member of the family †Ornitholestidae, now superseded by family †Compsognathidae.


podokesaurid

(zoology) Any theropod dinosaur of the family Podokesauridae, now considered to be a synonym of the superfamily Coelophysoidea.


proceratosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Proceratosauridae.


saurornithoidid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Saurornithoididae, a synonym of the Troodontidae.


segnosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Segnosauridae, a synonym for the Therizinosauridae.


spinosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Spinosauridae.


sinraptorid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Sinraptoridae.


therizinosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Therizinosauridae.


torvosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Torvosauridae (syn. of Megalosauridae).


tyrannosaurid

Similarly, the North American tyrannosaurid, Aublysodon, is reported from east Asia.

1965, David Jay Simmons, The non-therapsid reptiles of the Lufeng Basin, Yunnan, China, page 84:

Once again, Phil Currie says it definitely was a tyrannosaurid, most closely related, by braincase comparison, to Tarbosaurus. Chingkankousaurus fragilis was named by C. C. Yang in China in 1958.

1993, John R. Horner, The Complete T. Rex, page 134:

Most famous for the last and largest member of the clade, Tyrannosaurus rex, tyrannosaurids at first glance seem very far removed from the ostrichlike ornithomimosaurs.

2003, Gregory Paul, The Scientific American Book of Dinosaurs, page 155:

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Tyrannosauridae.


alvarezsaurian

Any extinct maniraptoran dinosaur of the superfamily Alvarezsauroidea


avialian

Any extinct dinosaur of the clade Avialae, together with any living descendant of class Aves (the birds).


carnosaur

Any large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of the infraorder Carnosauria


maniraptoriform

(zoology) Any dinosaur, of the clade Maniraptoriformes, thought to be the common ancestors of all birds.


therizinosaur

/ˌθɛɹɪˈzɪnəsɔː(r)/

Any theropod dinosaur of the clade Therizinosauria


deinonychus

en-noun

deinonychus (plural deinonychuses or deinonychi)

deinonychuses (plural)
deinonychi (plural)

From translingual Deinonychus (1969), from Ancient Greek δεινός (deinós, “fearful, terrible”) (see dinosaur) + ὄνυξ (ónux, “nail, claw, talon”).

der

The first attempts were made on the remains of duckbill dinosaurs found in the Coleville River dig, but the real success was made when the University located the remains of three deinonychi at an Amoco drill site on the Alaskan North Slope.

1990 November, Allen Steele, “Trembling Earth”, in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, volume 14, numbers 11–12 (whole 162–163), New York, N.Y.: Davis Publications, Inc., section 1 (The Mesozoic Express), page 64:

Bella kept half an eye out for the deinonychi. The deinonychus dinosaurs with the teeth and raking claws were big solid humans in the real.

1994, Gwyneth Jones, North Wind, New York, N.Y.: Tor, published 1996, →ISBN, page 224:

In that chamber, lying curled, or sitting hunched, were five saurians: two deinonychi and three smaller ones that looked like some kind of miniature tyrannosaur.

1997, Diane Duane, The Book of Night with Moon, New York, N.Y.: Aspect, Warner Books, →ISBN, page 248:

A medium agile dinosaur, of the genus Deinonychus, of the Cretaceous period, characterized by having a large, curved claw on each hind foot.


abelisaurus

An abelisaurid theropod dinosaur, of genus Abelisaurus, from the Late Cretaceous Period (Campanian) of what is now South America.

abelissauro

theropod dinosaur of the Late Cretaceous


megalosauroid

Any dinosaur of the superfamily Megalosauroidea.


albertosaurine

Any dinosaur of the tyrannosaurid subfamily Albertosaurinae


Coelurosauria

From New Latin Coelurosauria, from Ancient Greek κοῖλος (koîlos, “hollow”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”) + σαύρα (saúra, “lizard”) + -ia.

A taxonomic clade within the clade Avetheropoda – all animals closer to birds than to Allosaurus.


Proceratosauridae

A taxonomic family within the order Saurischia.


tyrannosaurine

Clipping of translingual Tyrannosaurinae

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translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Tyrannosaurinae</i>

Any dinosaur of the subfamily Tyrannosaurinae


盜龍

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ostrich dinosaur

en-noun

ostrich dinosaur (plural ostrich dinosaurs)


ornithomimosaurian

Any theropod dinosaur of the clade Ornithomimosauria


oviraptorosaurian

Any maniraptoran dinosaur of the clade Oviraptorosauria


oviraptosaurian

Any maniraptoran dinosaur of the clade Oviraptorosauria.


avetheropod

Any birdlike theropod of the clade Avetheropoda


abelisauroid

Any dinosaur of the superfamily Abelisauroidea


coelophysoid

Any dinosaur of the superfamily Coelophysoidea


Rexy

(informal) An endearing diminutive name given to an individual Tyrannosaurus rex.


carcharodontosaurian

Any dinosaur of the genus Carcharodontosaurus.


eumaniraptoran

Any bird-like dinosaur of the taxon Eumaniraptora


pengornithid

Any avialan of the family Pengornithidae.


ornithuromorph

The lineage that led to all living birds is known as the ornithuromorphs. […] Roughly three-quarters of all species on the planet were wiped out, including all feathered dinosaurs except the ornithuromorphs.

2023 June 3, Carl Zimmer, “How Did Birds First Take Off?”, in The New York Times:

Any avialan of the group Ornithuromorpha.


ornithothoracine

From translingual Ornithothoraces + -ine.

Any avialan of the clade Ornithothoraces


alossauro

Learned borrowing from translingual Allosaurus. By surface analysis, alo- + -sauro.

lbor

allosaurus (any dinosaur of the genus Allosaurus)


dromaeosaurine

Liaoning dromaeosaurids may simply be a grade on the line to velociraptorines and dromaeosaurines, and short arms may have evolved multiple times in this grade.

2015 July 16, Junchang Lü, Stephen L. Brusatte, “A large, short-armed, winged dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Early Cretaceous of China and its implications for feather evolution”, in Scientific Reports, volume 5, →DOI:

(paleontology) A bird-like theropod dinosaur of the subfamily Dromaeosaurinae.


velociraptorine

In some most parsimonious trees the Liaoning dromaeosaurids form a clade, but in others various species are more closely related to the dromaeosaurine and velociraptorine clade.

Any theropod of the subfamily Velociraptorinae


paravian

We note that the difference forelimb:hindlimb ratio is within the range of intraspecific variation in two paravian taxa known from multiple specimens, Microraptor 17 and Archaeopteryx 19 20, and is therefore not likely to be a clearly distinguishing feature between Tianyuraptor and Zhanyuanlong .

Any birdlike dinosaur of the clade Paraves, dinosaurs more closely related to birds than to oviraptorosaurs.


unenlagiine

Similarly, the humerus of Zhenyuanlong is the shortest relative to the femur of not only any Liaoning dromaeosaurid, but any dromaeosaurid in general except for the very basal taxon Mahakala and the aberrant unenlagiine Austroraptor.

Any dinosaur of the subfamily Unenlagiinae.


megaraptorid

The skeleton of Australovenator wintonensis from the Cenomanian of Australia is among the most complete of any megaraptorid.

2015 September 15, “Forearm Range of Motion in Australovenator wintonensis (Theropoda, Megaraptoridae)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Any theropod dinosaur of the family †Megaraptoridae.


elongatoolithid

Unlike other elongatoolithid and prismatoolithid eggs, Elongatoolithus elongatus and Protoceratopsidovum minimum were classified into the covered nest type.

2015 November 26, “Eggshell Porosity Provides Insight on Evolution of Nesting in Dinosaurs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(paleontology) Any member of the oofamily Elongatoolithidae.


caudipterid

It is also consistent with the exhibition of less resting forelimb flexion in Caudipteridae than in other feathered theropods, because caudipterid forelimbs are shorter than those of most other feathered dinosaurs, eliminating the possibility of contact between feathers and the ground, hence also eliminating the need for tight forelimb folding.

2015 December 17, “Resting Orientations of Dinosaur Scapulae and Forelimbs: A Numerical Analysis, with Implications for Reconstructions and Museum Mounts”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(zoology) Any of the †Caudipteridae, a family of oviraptorosaurian dinosaurs.


baryonychine

This contrasts with the more lateromedially angular quadrate ridge and the large quadrate foramen located at mid-height of the quadrates of baryonychines.

2016 January 7, “Morphofunctional Analysis of the Quadrate of Spinosauridae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) and the Presence of Spinosaurus and a Second Spinosaurine Taxon in the Cenomanian of North Africa.”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Any theropod dinosaur of the subfamily Baryonychinae.


microraptor

A small, four-winged paravian dinosaur of the genus Microraptor.


unenlagiid

Although megaraptoran and unenlagiid theropods are also thought to have played an important role as medium to large-size predators, we were not able to include them in our analysis due to the small number of occurrences.

2016 February 2, “The “χ” of the Matter: Testing the Relationship between Paleoenvironments and Three Theropod Clades”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Any theropod dinosaur of the genus Unenlagia


parvicursorine

Any dinosaur of the subfamily Parvicursorinae


cryolophosaur

Any theropod of the genus Cryolophosaurus


carcharodontosaurine

Any dinosaur of the subfamily Carcharodontosaurinae


deinonychosaurian

Any theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria


scansoriopterigid

Any dinosaur of the family Scansoriopterygidae


spinosauroid

Any dinosaur of the superfamily Spinosauroidea


carnotaurine

Any dinosaur of the family Carnotaurinae


megaraptoran

A carnivorous theropod dinosaur of the clade Megaraptora


avetheropodan

Any avian theropod of the clade Avetheropoda


eudromaeosaur

Any dinosaur of the clade Eudromaeosauria


spinosaur

Since then, all that has been discovered are some specimens of related smaller spinosaurs, as well as some isolated bones of Spinosaurus itself.

Any theropod dinosaur of the genus Spinosaurus.


caseasaur

Any theropod dinosaur of the genus †Caseosaurus


albertosaur

Any dinosaur of the genus †Albertosaurus


neotheropodan

Any theropod dinosaur of the clade Neotheropoda


spinosaurine

Any theropod dinosaur of the subfamily Spinosaurinae


pennaraptoran

Any member of the clade Pennaraptora, which includes birds and some of their extinct maniraptoran relatives.


scansoriopterygid

Any maniraptoran dinosaur of the family †Scansoriopterygidae


megatheropod

Juvenile T. rexes were light and agile before they leveled up into the adults we’re more familiar with. […] Other megatheropods, including abelisaurs and tarbosaurs, also grew from turkey-like hatchlings to bus-sized behemoths over the course of their lives.

2021 February 25, Cara Giaimo, “The Outsized Influence of Teen T. Rex and Other Young Dinosaurs”, in The New York Times:

(zoology) Any theropod dinosaur that exceeds 3000 kilograms in weight, and 9 meters in length.


tarbosaur

From the genus name Tarbosaurus, formed with -saur.

(zoology) A tyrannosaurid dinosaur of the genus Tarbosaurus from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia and China.


megaraptor

(paleontology) A member of the genus Megaraptor of large theropod dinosaurs that lived in the Turonian to Coniacian ages of the Late Cretaceous.


suchomimus

en-noun

suchomimus (plural suchomimus or suchomimuses)

suchomimus (plural)
suchomimuses (plural)

Borrowed from translingual Suchomimus, from sucho- + Latin mīmus (“mimic”).

(paleontology) Any spinosaurid dinosaur in the genus Suchomimus from the Early Cretaceous Period.


tyrannoraptoran

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translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Tyrannoraptora</i>

(paleontology) Any dinosaur of the clade Tyrannoraptora.


daspletosaur

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translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Daspletosaurus</i>

(paleontology) Any dinosaur in the genus Daspletosaurus.


dilophosaur

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Dilophosaurus</i>

The Dilophosaurus (dye-LA-fuh-SAWR-us), also shortened to Dilophosaur or even more so Dilo, is one of the dinosaurs in ARK: Survival Evolved.

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See the Dilophosaur up close and explore more of Utah's dinosaurs and prehistoric past at Moab Giants Dinosaur Park.

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(paleontology) Any theropod of the genus Dilophosaurus, which are falsely claimed to spit posion due to the Jurassic Park series.


Tyrannosaurus regina

By replacing rex (Latin rēx (“king”)) of Tyrannosaurus rex with Latin rēgīna (“queen”).

In olden days man fought Tyrannosaurus rex; nowadays he battles Tyrannosaurus regina—his wife.

1965 January 22, “Time Listings”, in Time: The Weekly Newsmagazine, volume 85, number 4, page 2:

You have scaly tail which helps you to stand up—like a tripod, like Tyrannosaura regina, but you are much smaller than she is.

1971, Bruce McAllister, Humanity Prime, Borgo Press / Wildside Press, page 54:

It’s Tyrannosaurus rex, the largest flesh-eating animal that ever thunked across the earth.[…]It’s made of chicken wire, plastic and rags dipped in gooey glue.[…]Meanwhile, he is in the school, probably looking for a Tyrannosaurus regina.

1971 April 29, Kathleen Bowman, “Thunk! A monster is born: Little fingers fashion a Tyrannosaurus rex”, in Enquirer and News, Battle Creek, Mich., page A-12:

[…]in adolescence the developing dinosaur is entrusted to Miss Tyrannosaurus Regina whose long life and virginity ensure her authority:[…]

1978, Evan Zimroth, Giselle Considers Her Future, Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, →ISBN, page 45:

A survey published last week found that only five per cent of the men in the entire labour force have wives who don’t work. After I’d read that, I stood in front of the mirror. And there she was, outlined in the twilight, a rare glimpse of a large mammalian female on the verge of extinction. Too big in the body, too little in the head, Tyrannosaurus Regina. We shall not see her ilk again.

1981 December 23, [Jill Tweedie], “All I ask, Mary, is when you visit, throw me a cream bun, OK: Letters from a fainthearted feminist”, in The Guardian, London, Manchester, page 8:

For 99.9% of the Cretaceous week, tyrannosaurus rex would kill anything that moved, eat anything that didn’t, break up the landscape, laugh at its own lousy jokes, belch, scratch, snore, pull the hairs out of its nostrils, and go to lodge meetings. In the five hebdomadal minutes remaining (usually on Saturday night), it would suddenly leap on tyrannosaurus regina with terrible ineptitude.

1982 July 21, Alan Coren, “A Short History”, in Punch, volume 283, number 7392, page 77:

Her [Sandra Weintraub’s] next project is a remake of “The Lost World,” the classic about a hidden valley where dinosaurs still exist. Maybe she’ll make the Tyrannosaurus Rex into a Tyrannosaurus Regina.

1983 April 3, Eleanor Ringel, “Papa makes write choice”, in The Atlanta Journal □ The Atlanta Constitution, page 1-H:

[…]was restored Tyrannosaurus regina.

“As for the relationship between my mother-in-law and us. The gentlemen of the press have speculated that the Queen — or Tyrannosaurus Regina, as we affectionately call her sometimes . . .”

1985 November 7, Pete McMartin, “It’s tough being top people”, in The Sun, volume 99, number 306, Vancouver, B.C., page five:

All that image-building and reputation-slaying in the name of democracy, and at the end of it another four years in opposition to the Tory Tyrannosaurus Regina.

1987, Maureen Lipman, Something To Fall Back On, Robson Books, →ISBN, page 185:

When I bat my eyelashes, monks spew away their last chances at Heaven! Nuns and junkies give up their habits for me! I drove the Whore of Babylon out of business! Astarte invented aphrodisiacs just to keep up with me! I am a mink in heat, I am a Tyrannosaurus Regina on the make, I make Jaws look like a Small-Mouthed Bass!

1989, Magistra Batrix/Magus Coyote, “Brag of the Female SubGenius”, in The Stark Fist of Removal, volume 17, No. 41 & 42, The SubGenius Foundation, Inc., pages 44–45:

Yet there we were, helplessly and snugly surrounded by Soup’s hoop, with an old rope snaking upward, ending in the clenched fists of the meanest kid in our solar system . . . Janice Riker, the inhuman replica of Tyrannosaurus Regina.

1990, Robert Newton Peck, Soup’s Hoop, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 6:

Does the disgruntled majordomo have nothing nice to say about this tyrannosaurus regina?

1991 March 23, Fern Brooks, “Marlo Thomas ‘Princess of Pain’: Former servant takes his revenge on glamor family”, in Calgary Herald, page E10:

Did you notice how when Tyrannosaurus Regina Thatcher, armed with her memoirs, began to stalk Calamity John Major through the political jungle, not only did they wheel out ‘Tarzan’ Heseltine to come to his aid but also the Conservative answer to Mills and Boon — Lord Jeffrey Archer?

1993 October 14, Olivia W Lockerbie, “Finlay isn’t a mole, he’s an albatross!”, in The Galloway News, page 9:

When we went to the movies, we saw one of two things: dinosaurs, or a film in which women dressed as men or men dressed as women. In short, it was the year of Tyrannosaurus Regina.

1993 December 26, Jay Stone, “1993: Everything that could go wrong …”, in The Ottawa Citizen, page F1:

A snaky neck coiled, and it was coming down at us, and it was all teeth. “Tyrannosaurus Regina,” Aaron whispered. “Cretaceous period. Meat-eater.”

1995, Richard Peck, Lost in Cyberspace, Puffin Books, published 1997, →ISBN, page 15:

Unfortunately, we used to have several candidates for that crown in the early days, and a few such dinosaurs survive. Romance Queens of the genus Tyrannosaurus Regina. But most romance writers are as everyday as Hamburger Helper: hard-working women—and a few brave men—who labor in obscurity to earn five figures, all of them with no more personal pizzazz or prima donna temperament than a sponge mop.

1996, Carole Nelson Douglas, Cat in a Diamond Dazzle: A Midnight Louie Mystery, New York, N.Y.: Forge, →ISBN, page 76:

Sue the Tyrannosaurus Rex (Regina?) is coming soon to a museum near you.

1997 October 17, “Sue T-Rex: Not just another pretty face”, in South Bend Tribune, 125th year, number 223, page A10:

‘Of course,’ Rupert told the Sunday dragon lady on the World at One, Thelma the Tyrannosaurus Regina as they called her in the English Broadcasting Corporation.

1998, Peter Preston, 51st State, Viking, →ISBN, page 209:

AS QUEENSLAND voters approach the ballot boxes like so many stegosaurus heading for the watering hole, the tyrannosaurus regina of Australian politics, Ms Pauline Hanson, has revealed her arts policy to the nation.

1998 June 13, Simon Hughes, “Week’s End”, in The Age, page 28:

When one of the popular, rich girls got called out during lunch, it signaled we were all in trouble — rich and popular, average and smart, geeky and just plain invisible — all of us were suitable prey for the roving band of Tyrannosaurus Reginas.

2004 March 14, Karla DeLuca, “The ‘Terminator’ wore a dress in 7th grade”, in The Marshall News Messenger, volume 127, number 288, page 2A:

The biogenetically engineered Tyrannosaurus regina of Jurassic Park (1993) was only the most eagerly awaited and attended of a slew of monstrous women who ruled the nation’s movie screens in the 1980s and 1990s. The two decades brought forth dozens like her: the rapacious queen of Aliens (1986), the scheming sea-witch Ursula of The Little Mermaid (1989),[…]

2005, Joshua David Bellin, Framing Monsters: Fantasy Film and Social Alienation, Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 107:

WAS it Tyrannosaurus rex or Tyrannosaurus regina? Until now, telling the tyrant-lizard kings from their queens has been pure guesswork. But the discovery of an unusual type of bone in a T. rex femur[…]

“Meaning what?” sniffled the dinosaur snottily into the fluffy white mantle of her nice, big, thick fur coat with purple bits all over it. “Well, meaning you’re one better than just a silly old t rex; you’re a tyrannosaurus regina!”

2005 July, Jonathan Reed-Stuart, Cybersaur! The Adventures of Chloe & George, the Internet Dinosaur, volume I, →ISBN, page 105:

Just short of the overturned vehicle, Tyrannosaurus rex stopped and sniffed the air, suspecting a trap—food was not supposed to give up quite so easily as this. Tyrannosaurus regina, however, was less fearful. She charged as the driver clambered up out of the capsized yellow hulk, slid to the ground, and fled across the field toward the crest of the knoll.

2006, Steven Utley, Howard Waldrop, “Crab”, in Deborah Layne, Jay Lake, editors, Polyphony, volume 6, Wheatland Press, →ISBN, page 134:

The film’s [Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs] plot, if one can call it that, involves the return of the Tyrannosaurus Regina to reclaim her hatchlings and take Sid to a lush, tropical underworld so different from Sid’s familiar icy territory.

2009 July 1, Carrie Rickey, “‘Ice Age’ franchise: Melting, melting …”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 181st year, number 31, page E4:

He described Lynda as a spoiled and lethal “Tyrannosaurus Regina” with a red rictus smile and a “death-lizard voice,” alternately screaming at him and utterly dependent on the veneer of class she thought he gave them despite his towering ineptitude as a butler.

2011, Michael Gross, Unreal Estate: Money, Ambition, and the Lust for Land in Los Angeles, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 481:

Wake up from your history dream of echoing terror screams and share your song name with these lost children so I open my eyes to see Her glowing face and her sweet song rings my heart so alive I leap and twirl and somersault clapping my hands in drumming rhythm on tingling spine handsprings of hope to catch up with angels running swift in fluttering robes through tangled forests of grumbling oaks as we dodge dinosaur legs through endless halls of Jewel Cathedral where Tyrannosaurus Regina Demon Queen sits on Lotus Disk that twirls petal propellers to soar among stars over our small world.

2017, Simon Albert Craig Seamount, Gothiniad, →ISBN, page 267:

In her mind, she’s Tyrannosaurus regina crossed with a medieval witch.

2018, Ruth Hamilton, For the Love of Liverpool, Pan Books, published 2019, →ISBN:

(often humorous and figurative) A female Tyrannosaurus rex.


welociraptor

welociraptor (nominative singular)
welociraptory (nominative plural)
welociraptora (genitive singular)
welociraptorów (genitive plural)
welociraptorowi (dative singular)
welociraptorom (dative plural)
welociraptora (accusative singular)
welociraptory (accusative plural)
welociraptorem (instrumental singular)
welociraptorami (instrumental plural)
welociraptorze (locative singular)
welociraptorach (locative plural)
welociraptorze (singular vocative)
welociraptory (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from New Latin Velociraptor, from Latin vēlōx + raptor.


espinossauro

Learned borrowing from New Latin Spinosaurus.


chicken from hell

en-noun

chicken from hell (plural chickens from hell)

(slang) An extinct theropod dinosaur of species Anzu wyliei.


hell chicken

(slang) An extinct theropod dinosaur of the species Anzu wyliei.


baryonyx

From Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús, “heavy or strong”) + ὄνυξ (ónux, “claw or talon”).

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Baryonyx walkeri, a theropod from the Cretaceous period discovered in 1983 in Surrey, England by William Walker, believed to be an ancestor of Spinosaurus.


spinozaur

spinozaur (nominative singular)
spinozaury (nominative plural)
spinozaura (genitive singular)
spinozaurów (genitive plural)
spinozaurowi (dative singular)
spinozaurom (dative plural)
spinozaura (accusative singular)
spinozaury (accusative plural)
spinozaurem (instrumental singular)
spinozaurami (instrumental plural)
spinozaurze (locative singular)
spinozaurach (locative plural)
spinozaurze (singular vocative)
spinozaury (plural vocative)

(paleontology) spinosaurus (large, extinct, carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Spinosaurus, with a long snout like that of a crocodile and with a sail on its back)


gorgosaurus

en-noun

gorgosaurus (plural gorgosauruses or gorgosauri)

gorgosauruses (plural)
gorgosauri (plural)

From the genus name, Gorgosaurus, from Ancient Greek γοργός (gorgós, “grim, fierce, terrible”) + -saurus (suffix forming genus names of dinosaurs).

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No. 1 is in the Stone age, the time when man went around dressed in a bearskin and threw rocks at prehistoric monsters called Ankylosauri, Gorgosauri or Triceratops.

1930 April 22, Murray, “Ruth Throughout the Ages”, in The Evening Star, number 31,402, Washington, D.C., page C—1, columns 3–4:

The Gorgosaurus is notable for its ability to maintain a high speed chase for some distance, unlike the Tyrannosaurus or Allosaurus. Also, it can bound for its full length in an attack leap! Like Allosaurus, Gorgosaurus is terribly jealous of its territory, but it will permit a female to range in its territory and often forms a mated pair hunting team for the spring and summer. Typical ranges are the same as that of the Allosaurus, but Gorgosauri will also enter swamps, sticking to the shallows and to the dry land of the mounds dotting swamps.

1979, Wes Ives, Edward E. Simbalist, Saurians (Chivalry & Sorcery), Jericho, N.Y.: Fantasy Games Unlimited; republished in Red Book, 5th edition, 2013, page 59, column 1:

Having seen how quickly and savagely the gorgosauri and the allosaurus had devastated the exploration team, Ian and Rebecca had a fearful respect for the meat-eating species.

1981, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, page 127, column 1:

Gorgosauri are carnivores, usually hungry, and may attack anything encountered unless they have just eaten a very large meal.

1987, Rudy Kraft, Paul Jaquays, Greg Stafford, Sandy Petersen, Griffin Island (RuneQuest), 3rd edition, 5th volume, Eastwood, Notts.: Games Workshop Ltd, →ISBN, page 15, column 1:

Henry Beissel asks in “First Canto: Landscape,” “What artist dare raise his vision from the dead/centre of creation against this dinosaur indifference?” (CN, 7). Mention of dinosaurs, pterodactyls and gorgosauruses in particular, recurs in the Tenth and Eleventh Cantos as part of his geological imagery (CN, 45-55).

1987, Valerie Broege, “Puer Country: Imaging Canada and Its American Shadow”, in Spring: An Annual of Archetypal Psychology and Jungian Thought, Dallas, Tex.: Spring Publications, Inc., →ISBN, →ISSN, page 22:

Hadrosaurs — duck-billed, plant-eating creatures weighing up to 3,600 kilograms — were the most common dinosaurs in what is now the park. The shallow water at the sea’s edge suited their partially webbed feet and provided vegetation for their diet. The water also served as a refuge from the giant meat-eating gorgosauruses that preyed on them.

1995, The Beauty and Splendor of North America: Scenic Treasures of Canada and the USA, Montreal, Que.: The Reader’s Digest Association Canada Ltd., →ISBN, page 18:

In this context, the figments of Lesje’s imagination — the visions of gorgosauruses, pterodactyls, and iguanodons — function at the point of suture as the seamlike line of junction between her Imaginary existence and a symbolic one.

1996, Sonia Mycak, In Search of the Split Subject: Psychoanalysis, Phenomenology, and the Novels of Margaret Atwood, Toronto, Ont.: ECW Press, →ISBN, page 128:

I think you have just killed three Gorgosauri or Gorgasaurus,^([sic]) whichever is grammatically correct. They are like us, misplaced in time. We saw one on the disk Fanny made with the first exploration ship. We were afraid they would come over the wall one day. They should have been extinct sixty-five million years ago.

2005, Belle Smith, chapter 25, in Lucian’s Place, Baltimore, Md.: PublishAmerica, LLLP, →ISBN, pages 311–312:

In 1997, the amateur fossil hunters Cliff and Sandy Linster, digging near Chorteau, Montana, unearthed the skeleton of a dinosaur – a 72-million-year-old female gorgosaurus. Gorgosauruses are not particularly rare, but this one had an interesting quirk. Rattling around inside its skull was a bone ball. It was an extraskeletal osteosarcoma – a bone tumour – which would have encroached on its cerebellum and its brainstem.

2009, Charles Foster, “Who’s Right? Evidence and the Lack of It”, in The Selfless Gene: Living with God and Darwin, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 79:

A tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur of the genus Gorgosaurus that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period (Campanian), between about 76.6 and 75.1 million years ago.


南方巨獸龍

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наньфанцзюйшоулун

/nän³⁵ fɑŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂoʊ̯⁵¹ lʊŋ³⁵/

/nän³⁵ fɑŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂoʊ̯⁵¹ lʊŋ³⁵/


猶他盜龍

ㄧㄡˊ ㄊㄚ ㄉㄠˋ ㄌㄨㄥˊ

/joʊ̯³⁵ tʰä⁵⁵ tɑʊ̯⁵¹ lʊŋ³⁵/

/joʊ̯³⁵ tʰä⁵⁵ tɑʊ̯⁵¹ lʊŋ³⁵/


小盜龍

ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄉㄠˋ ㄌㄨㄥˊ

/ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ tɑʊ̯⁵¹ lʊŋ³⁵/

/ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ tɑʊ̯⁵¹ lʊŋ³⁵/


峨山龍

/ˀɤ³⁵ ʂän⁵⁵ lʊŋ³⁵/

/ˀɤ³⁵ ʂän⁵⁵ lʊŋ³⁵/

Calque of translingual Eshanosaurus, named after 峨山 (Éshān, “Eshan Yi Autonomous County, Yunnan”)


Aviatyrannis

Possibly from Latin avia (“grandmother”) + Latin tyrannis (“tyrant”, genitive noun).

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A taxonomic genus within the clade Coelurosauria.


Yutyrannus

→ English: yutyrannus

→ French: Yutyrannus

→ German: Yutyrannus

Chinese 羽 (yǔ, “feather”) + Latin tyrannus (“tyrant”), from the fossils containing what seem to be feathers.

A taxonomic genus within the family Proceratosauridae – certain proceratosaurid theropods.