Evolutionary Tree of Predatory Dinosaurs (IMAGE)

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Evolutionary Tree of Predatory Dinosaurs

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Simplified evolutionary tree of predatory dinosaurs (theropods). Saltriovenator predates the massive meat-eating dinosaurs by over 25 million years: it is the oldest known ceratosaurian, and the world's largest predatory dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic. During the Jurassic, the three- fingered tetanuran theropods appeared, which gave rise to birds.

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Andrea Cau

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