Labels:text | screenshot | font | number | parallel | document OCR: Contents Search Index << Previous Next>> Dinosaurs Glossary Back View It! Print Print Setup Exit TYRANNOSAURUS Theropoda (Theropods) Translation: Beast Footed Pronunciation: tye-RAN-uh-sawr-us + Theropoda (thair-uh-PODE-ah) is one two Translation: Tyrant Lizard suborders of saurischia. Theropods were the Also Known As: Tarbosaurus Bipedal They walked on Description: Carnivore, Bipedal Translation: Two Feet dies parallel to the to counterbalance Order: Saurischia A bipedal animal is one that stands or walks on its and heads. They Suborder: Theropoda two hind legs. Theropods and Ornithopods were hassic through the their sizes ranged Infraorder: Tetanurae bipeds. Humans and birds are also bipeds. 50 feet (15 meters) Micro-order: Carnosauria Family: Tyrannosauridae See also Quadrupe Mesozoic Mesozoic (mes-uh-ZO-ik) is the era following the Height: 23 feet (7 meters) Paleozoic Era. The Mesozoic Era began 245 Length: 50 feet (15.2 meters) million years ago and ended 66 million years ago. It was dur Weight: 12,000 - 14,000 lbs (5,443 - 6,350 kg) died. Carnosauria (Carnosaurs) Period: Late Cretaceous Tertiary Period Translation: Meat-Eating Lizards Notes: One of the larges Carnosauria (kar-nuh-SAWR-ee-ah) is the animals, Tyrannosaurus Translation: Third Period micro-order of the suborder Tetanurae, an example, it has been fea The Tertiary Period is the first of the t of Theropoda. Carnosaurs had enormous h other single dinosaur. Ty Cenozoic Era. It immediately followed short necks, powerful muscles and heavy with powerful jaws lined v Period (the last period of the Mesozo Armed with stout tails, vicious claws, and teeth. Contrary to earlier from 66 million years ago to 2 million teeth, they attacked and killed prey swiftly mobility, Tyrannosaurus dinosaur fossils have been found in ro The family Tyrannosauridae, which include capable of bursts of up to and during this time mammals becam Tyrannosaurus rex, is the best-known and form. highly developed family of carnosaurs.