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List of Theropod Type Specimens
This list of specimens is a comprehensive catalogue of all the type specimens and their scientific designations for each of the genera and species that are included in the clade Theropoda.

Theropoda is a clade of saurischian dinosaurs that includes some of the largest terrestrial carnivores such as

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Scope and Terminology
This list will include the type fossils of each theropod species. In paleontology, a type specimen is one which is definitionally a member of a biological taxon. Additional specimens can only be "referred" to these taxa if an expert deems them sufficiently similar to the type.

There is no complete, canonical list of all dinosaur taxa or holotype specimens. Attempts are regularly published in the form of books, such as the Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs by Gregory Paul and Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages by Thomas Holtz and Luis Rey. Where appropriate, The Paleobiology Database and Fossilworks, which are both online databases of named fossil taxa, are used to supplement the entries from published encyclopedias which are missing or data-deficient.

This list will also be updated regularly as new scientific descriptions are published and new taxa are named. The most recently named theropod is Migmanychion laiyang which was described by Xuri Wang, Andrea Cau, Zhengdong Wang, Kaifeng Yu, Wenhao Wu, YAng Wang, and Yichuan Liu in June 2023.