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Ceratosaurus

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Ceratosaurus [sə‚rad·ə′sȯr·əs]
(paleontology)
A carnivorous therapod dinosaur, 20 feet (6 meters) long, from the Late Jurassic Period that had strong hindlimbs, short and weak forelimbs (with four-fingered hands), and massive jaws lined with enormous teeth.
Ceratosaurus 

a genus of extinct reptiles of the suborder Theropoda, superorder Dinosauria. The animals had a large, rough protuberance on the nasal bones that was apparently the base of a horn. The single known species, C. nasicornis, was a large biped predator that measured approximately 3 m in height. A skeleton of the creature was found in Upper Jurassic deposits in the USA, in the state of Colorado.
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Ceratosaurus Fossils found in: Fremont County, Colorado, USA from 1883 up to 1884 Estimated Height: 2 meters or 6 feet and 6 inches Estimated Length: 6 meters or 20 feet Estimated Weight: 1 tonne The Ceratosaurs or the so-called ?
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Meanwhile, Prince Philip toured the ground floor where he paused at length under the skeleton of a Ceratosaurus - a giant carnivorous dinosaur.
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Prince Philip toured the ground floor where he paused under the skeleton of a Ceratosaurus - a giant carnivorous lizard with a distinctive horn on its nose.
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