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Allosaurus
- Allosaurus was a large carnivorous dinosaur up to 39ft long. Its name means 'different lizard' because its vertebrae were different from those of all other dinosaurs.
- It was the most common large predator in what is now North America, 155 to145 million years ago.
- It had a massive skull on a short neck, a long tail and reduced forelimbs.
- Allosaurus is the official state dinosaur of Utah, in the United States.
- Calvin in the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes often imagines himself as an Allosaurus in his "dinosaur" fantasies.
Dino Magic™ Dinosaurs
All the model dinosaurs featured in the Dino Magic Eggs are actually modelled after real dinosaurs that roamed the Earth millions of years ago! Want to find out more? Don't know your Brontosaurus from your Archaeopteryx? Well, you're in the right place!
Allosaurus /
Archaeopteryx /
Brontosaurus /
Carnotaurus /
Ceratosaurus /
Coelophysis /
Euoplocephalus /
Kentrosaurus /
Longisquama /
Ornitholestes /
Ornithomimus /
Pachycephalosaurus /
Parasaurolophus /
Postosuchus /
Pterodactyl /
Scelidosaurus /
Spinosaurus /
Stegosaurus /
Styracosaurus /
Thecodont /
Therizinosaurus /
Triceratops /
Tyrannosaurus Rex /
Velociraptor
The information about the dinosaur on this page is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Allosaurus.