Saurophaganax
| Saurophaganax Temporal range: Late Jurassic | |
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| Holotype specimen, a dorsal neural arch | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | †Saurophaganax Chure, 1995 |
| Species: | †S. maximus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Saurophaganax maximus Chure, 1995 | |
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Saurophaganax ("lord of lizard-eaters") is a dubious, chimeric genus of large saurischian dinosaur, possibly a sauropod, from the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) Morrison Formation of Oklahoma, United States. This taxon was historically considered to represent a species of Allosaurus or very large allosaurid. However, re-examinations of the attributed specimens suggested that it is a chimera of multiple dinosaur genera, since some specimens most likely belong to a diplodocid sauropod, while the other referred specimens could be reassigned to a novel species of Allosaurus.