NOUN
- 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
How To Use ceratosaur In A Sentence
- With names such as Codex Sinaiticus, the Macregol Gospels and the Valenciennes Apocalypse, they evoke lost empires and ancient monasteries as surely as archaeopteryx and ceratosaurus conjure up primeval swamps and forests. GetReligion
- Also preserved at the site are the carnivorous dinosaur Ceratosaurus (6 teeth) and the small ornithopod dinosaur Othnielosaurus (one jaw fragment), the latter first identified during the 2008 season. Cooperative Management of Paleontological Resources on Federal Lands in Mesa County, Colorado
- So, I'm still processing the news of the discovery of hard evidence of an enormous lake that existed in the Martian Shalbatana Vallis region some 3.4 billion years ago, when I get word of an exciting new herbivorous Chinese ceratosaur, Limusaurus inextricabilis. "This flood will swallow all you've left behind."
- So, here I am still excited by Limusaurus, the herbivorous ceratosaurid, and up pops a previously unknown form of the speciose ceratopsian genus Psittacosaurus (presently 10-11 valid species known), from the Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia. Spock, Obama, the Kwisatz Haderach, and decriminalizing evolution.
- My previous repost was made to give the background on a recent discovery of Jurassic ceratosaur, Limusaurus inextricabilis, and what it tells us about digit evolution. The Panda's Thumb: Transitional Fossils Archives
- Limusaurus is the first ceratosaur known from East Asia and one of the most primitive members of the group. Innovations-report
- Predatory dinosaurs of the Jurassic included fearsome carnosaurs such as Allosaurus, small, fast coelurosaurs, and ceratosaurs such as Dilophosaurus.
- This is a Jurassic ceratosaur, so it says that this is from the Jurassic (~2348 BC). Reddit.com: what's new online!
- The bones of ceratosaurians, like those of all known theropods, are hollow.