Table 1. Specimens of Tyrannosaurus rex analysed in this study. (Specimen numbers are from the MOR, with catalogue numbers of labelled thin sections; tib, tibia; fem, femur; fib, fibula; L, length of bone (mm); C, circumference of bone (mm); Tcor, total cortical thickness; Tlag, cortical thickness with LAGs preserved; Tnon, cortical thickness without LAGs preserved; MR, medullary radius (marrow cavity from which bone has been eroded) = total radius minus cortical thickness; actual LAGs, number of LAGs that could be counted in Tlag; retroc LAGs, number of LAGs retrocalculated for Tnon. Methods of calcu- lation: (i) mean; (ii) maximum; (iii) penultimate; (iv) parabolic; and (v) incremental; for explanation see § 2.)
| specimen | section | L | C | Tcor | Tlag | Tnon | MR | actual LAGs | retroc LAGs | calibrated age methods of calculation and overall age estimates |
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| 009 tib | TI- 1 - C | 1070 | 404 | 16 | 16 | 0 | 35 | 4 | 10 –11 | 14– 15 ± 1 (i), 8 – 10 (ii), 10 – 12 (iii) + 11 – 12 |
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| 009 tib | TI- 1 - D | 1070 | 404 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 45 | 3 | 10 –11 | 13 – 14 ± 1 (i), 9 – 11 (ii), 13 – 15 (iii) + 11 – 12 |
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| 555 tib | TI- 1 a | 1200 | ca. 500 | 26 | 26 | 0 | 43 | 7 | 4 – 14 | 11 – 12 (ii), 14 (iii), 16– 18 (iv) + 14 ± 2 |
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| 555 tib | TI- 1 b | 1200 | ca. 500 | 27 | 27 | 0 | 43 | 7 | 4 – 14 | 11 – 12 (ii), 14 (iii), 16– 18 (iv) + 14 ± 2 |
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| 1125 fem | Fe 1- L 2- B2 a | 1070 | 433 | 30 | 14 | 16 | 46 | 4 | 9 – 11 | 15 – 17 (i) |
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| 1125 fem | Fe 1- L 2- B2 b | 1070 | 433 | 22 | 12 | 10 | 38 | 7 | 10 – 15 | 17 – 18 (v), 20 –22 (ii) + 18 ± 2 |
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| 1156 tib | T 2 -1 | — | — | 38 | 18 | 20 | — | 7 | — | — |
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| 1156 tib | T3 - 1 | — | — | 43 | 11 | 32 | — | 7 | — | — |
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| 1198 tib | Fe- 1 -B- 1 | — | — | 44 | 22 | 22 | — | 10 | 3 – 4 | — |
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| 1198 tib | Fe- 1 - A- 1 | — | — | 29 | 29 | 0 | — | 8 | — | — |
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| 1128 tib | TI- 1 | 1120 | 464 | 26 | 26 | 0 | 44 | 6 – 7 | 4 – 13 | 11 – 12 (v), 14 – 16 (ii), 18 – 20 (iii), 20 – 21 (i) + 16 ± 5 |
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| 1128 tib | TI- 2 | 1120 | 464 | 26 | 26 | 0 | 44 | 6 – 7 | 4 – 13 | 11 – 12 (v), 14 – 16 (ii), 18 – 20 (iii), 20 – 21 (i) + 16 ± 5 |
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| 1152 fem | LBF2 -1 | — | — | 44 | 22 | 22 | — | 10 | 3 – 4 | — |
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| 1152 fem | F 2 - 1 | — | — | 41 | 26 | 15 | — | 10 | 2 – 3 | — |
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| 1152 fib | Fi- 2 | — | — | 22 | 11 | 11 | 1 | ‡ 17 | 5– 10 | 24– 25(ii), 27 (iii), 22 (v) + 25 ± 2 |
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