Tetanurae

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Avetheropoda

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  Carnosauria

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  Coelurosauria

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Spinosauroidea

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  Spinosauria

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The Tetanurae are an extremely diverse group of Theropod dinosaurs, united by a few common features such as enlarged hands which have lost the fourth and fith digits to leave three fingers.

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One classification subdivides the group into the Spinosauroidea and Avetheropoda, the latter consisting of the Carnosauria (allosaurs and their close relatives; allosaurids flourished from the late Jurassic to the late Cretaceous period, in places as far apart as North and South America, Europe and Africa) and the Coelurosauria.

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There are a large number of well known dinosaurs in this group including:

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• Tyrannosaurus
• Spinosaurus
• Allosaurus
• Velociraptor
• Compsognathus

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