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Tyrannosaurus rex Osborn 1905
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Description
Tyrannosaurus rex Osborn, 1905
Figs. 2A, 3, 5A
= Dynamosaurus imperosus Osborn 1905
Holotype: CM 9380 (formerly AMNH 973) partial skull and skeleton from the Hell Creek Formation, Montana, U.S.A.
Diagnosis: Angular terminates posterior to the surangular fenestra. Surangular fenestra much larger than in Tyrannosaurus bataar. Maxilla terminates below the lacrymal.
Stratigraphic and Paleobiogeographic Distribution: Scollard and Willow Creek formations of Alberta; Frenchman Formation of Saskatchewan; Hell Creek Formation of Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota; Lance Formation of Wyoming; and Laramie Formation of Colorado.
Notes
Published as part of Carpenter, K., 1992, Tyrannosaurids (Dinosauria) of Asia and North America, pp. 250-268 in Aspects of Nonmarine Cretaceous Geology, Beijing :China Ocean Press on page 254, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1038212
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMNH
- Material sample ID
- CM 9380 (formerly AMNH 973)
- Scientific name authorship
- Osborn
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Dinosauria
- Family
- Tyrannosauridae
- Genus
- Tyrannosaurus
- Species
- rex
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Tyrannosaurus rex Osborn, 1905 sec. Carpenter, 1992
References
- Osborn, H., 1905, Tyrannosaurus and other Cretaceous carnivorous dinosaurs: American Museum of Natural History Bulletin 21, pp. 259 - 265.