Genus: Allosaurus MARSH, 1877
Etymology: Greek, allos, “strange” and Greek sauros “lizard”, Strange lizard.

Species: fragilis MARSH, 1877
Etymology:

Referred material:

FOTH, EVERS, PABST, MATEUS, FLISCH, PATTHEY, & RAUHUT, 2015

Locality: Howe Quarry, near Shell, Greybull, Big horn County, Wyoming.

Horizon: Salt Wash Member, Morrison Formation.

Biostratigraphy: Zone 2.

Age: Comobluffian age, Kimmeridgian Stage, uppermost Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

SMA 0005 ('big Al 2'): Skull and skeleton.

Note: SMA 0005 has several pathologies; Anterior tip of left dentary is strongly modified; 4th cervical has two exostoses; 5th cervical has a pathology at the base of the left postzygapophysis; several cervical ribs have lesions; the proximal part of the left scapula has transverse fracture and has been broken and healed; the left humerus has abnormal ulnar condyle; several ribs are broken and healed or has lesions; the left ischium has an oblique fracture located at a midshaft position; left pedal phalanx II-2 has a bulbous callus covering about 2/3rds the element; and the left pedal phalanx IV-1 ahs two bulbous swellings on the lateral side.

HANNA, 2002

Locality: Cleveland-Llyod Dinosaur Quarry, approximately 20 miles south of Price, SE 1/4, SE 1/4, Sec. 21, T17S, R11E, SLBM. lat 39°19’00", Long. 110°41’15"W, San Rafael Swell Area, Carbon County, Utah.

Horizon: Upper or Brushy Basin Member, Morrison Formation.

Biostratigraphy: Zone 3.

Age: Comobluffian age, Kimmeridgian Stage, uppermost Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

UUVP 30-76: Ulna.

UUVP 30-783: Right metatarsal IV.

UUVP 177: 2 co-ossified distal caudal vertebrae.

UUVP 1010: Anterior caudal vertebra.

UUVP 1169: Left humerus.

UUVP 1528: Left scapula.

UUVP 1657: Left pedal phalange III-1.

UUVP 1849: 3 distal co-ossified caudal vertebrae.

UUVP 1851: Left pedal phalange IV-1.

UUPV 1853: Left pedal phalange II-3.

UUVP 2753: Dorsal rib.

UUVP 2939: Pedal phalange.

UUVP 2997: Phalange.

UUVP 3435: Right humerus.

UUVP 3771: Caudal vertebrae and chevron.

UUVP 4946, 5660, 5661 : Ribs.

UUVP 5256: Caudal vertebrae (PS-12, PS-14) and chevron (PS-13).

UUVP 5599: Right scapula.

UUVP 5658: Distal caudal vertebra.

UUVP 5659: Distal caudal vertebrae.

UUVP 5669: Left pedal phalange IV-2.

UUVP 5985: Ilium and ischium.

UUVP 6768 : Left pedal phalange III-1.

UUVP 10136: Cervical vertebra.

UUVP 10220 : Right pedal phalange II-2.

UUVP 10908: Right pedal phalange IV-1.

Unnumbered : Right rib.

HUNT, LUCAS, KRAINER & SPIELMANN, 2006

UUVP 40-724: Pathological phalanx.

CARPENTER, SANDERS, McWHINNEY & WOOD, 2005

UMNH 10781 (formerly UUVP 3811): Fused neural spines and transverse processes.

Note: This caudal shows a possibel puncture in the caudal rib from Stegosaurus?

ROTHSCHILD & TANKE, 2005

UUVP 6023: Pathologic scapula.

BYUVP 5099: Pathologic humerus.


LAWS, 1993,1995, 1996

Locality: 300 meters northeast of Howe Quarry, near Shell, Greybull, Big horn County, Wyoming.

Horizon: Salt Wash Member, Morrison Formation.

Biostratigraphy: Zone 2.

Age: Comobluffian age, Kimmeridgian Stage, uppermost Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

MOR 693: Skull and skeleton approximately 90 percent complete, with pathologies on several phalanges.
Pathologies are as follows: Third dorsal vertebra. Right scapula, manus phalanx I-1, left ilium, metatarsal III, metatarsal V, pes phalanx III-1, two pes unguals and two dorsal ribs.

Note: “Big Al”, also shows beetle borings.

 

 

Locality: DIM 116 (N. N. A Quarry), near the Carnegie Quarry, Dinosaur National Monument, north of the little town of Jensen, Uintah County, Utah.

Horizon: Salt Wash Member, Morrison Formation.

Biostratigraphy: Zone 2.

Age: Comobluffian age, Kimmeridgian Stage, uppermost Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

DINO 11541: Skull and nearly complete skeleton of a subadult.
Note: With furcula.
Note: Has some pathologic gastralia.

 

GILMORE, 1920

Locality: Marsh-Felch’s YPM Quarry 1, Garden Park, Sec. 28, T17S, R70W, Canyon City, Fremont County, Colorado.

Horizon: Salt Wash Member, Morrison Formation.

Biostratigraphy: Zone 2.

Age: Comobluffian age, Kimmeridgian Stage, uppermost Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

USNM 4734: "Sk 7", Fragmentary skull and fragmentary skeleton with paleopathologic left scapula.
Note: Paratype according to MADSEN, 1976.
Note: Labrosaurus ferox may belong to this specimen.
Note: May belong to Allosaurus fragilis USNM 4734: "Sk 7", Fragmentary skull and fragmentary skeleton with paleopathologic left scapula and pathologic gastralia (broken and rehealed).

 

ROTHSCHILD & TANKE, 2005

Locality:

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age:

Material:

WDIS: 2 fused thoracic vertebrae.

Pathologic.

= Allosaurus fragilis FULLER, 2009

Locality: Dana Quarry, Ten Sleep, Washakie County, Wyoming.

Horizon: Lower part of the Brushy Basin Member, Morrison Formation.

Biostratigraphy: Zone?

Age: Late Kimmeridgian-Early Tithonian Stage, Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

HS0387: Skulls and skeletal remains.

Note: Paleopathologies, the fourth dorsal vertebra shows two irregularly shaped groths affecting both sides of the arch and centrum, 8th and 9th dorsal vertebrae cojoined, right scapula and coracoid with depressions, left scapula with a depression (XING, ROTHSCHILD, DU, WANG, WEN & SU, 2022).


= Labrosaurus ferox MARSH, 1884
Etymology:

Holotype: USNM 2315

Locality: Marsh-Felch’s YPM Quarry 1, Garden Park, Sec. 28, T17S, R70W, Canyon City, Fremont County, Colorado.

Horizon: Salt Wash Member, Morrison Formation.

Biostratigraphy: Zone 2.

Age: Comobluffian age, Kimmeridgian Stage, uppermost Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material: Fragmentary dentary.

Note: The tip seems to have been bitten off and is pathologic.