Creosaurus Marsh, 1878

Creosaurus Marsh, 1878 (Amer. J. Sci., (3) 15, 243. NcZ) "flesh lizard"
CREE-o-SAWR-us (Gr. kreos "flesh" + Gr. sauros "lizard")* (m) alluding to its flesh-eating diet. Marsh says: "This genus...was the carnivorous enemy of the huge Atlantosauridae." Generally treated as a junior synonym of Allosaurus fragilis, the form is considered a distinct species (Allosaurus atrox), and possibly a definable genus by a few researchers. [= Allosaurus Marsh, 1877]

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