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Tyrannosaurus rex Osborn 1905
Authors/Creators
- 1. 3100 St. Paul St. 604, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- 2. Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, College of Charleston, 202 Calhoun St, Charleston, SC 29401, USA
Description
Tyrannosaurus rex Osborn, 1905 (Morphotype II)
Etymology: Tyrant lizard king
Holotype: CM 9340
Referred specimens: BHI 6230, BHI 6233, BHI 6435, BHI 6436, RSM 2523.8? BHI 4100? MNHUK R7994?
Age and stratigraphy: Latest Maastrichtian, upper and possibly middle Hell Creek and Lance, Ferris, Denver, Frenchman, Willow Creek, Scollard.
Geographic distribution: Montana, Colorado, Dakotas, Wyoming, Alberta, Saskatchewan.
Diagnosis: generally robust with an adult femur-length/ circumference ratio of about 2.4 or less; usually one slender anterior incisiform dentary tooth.
Notes
Published as part of Paul, Gregory S., Iv, W. Scott Persons & Van Raalte, Jay, 2022, The Tyrant Lizard King, Queen and Emperor: Multiple Lines of Morphological and Stratigraphic Evidence Support Subtle Evolution and Probable Speciation Within the North American Genus Tyrannosaurus, pp. 156-179 in Evolutionary Biology 49 (2) on page 19, DOI: 10.1007/s11692-022-09561-5, http://zenodo.org/record/6323344
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.1007/s11692-022-09561-5 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/6323344 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFA1FFDFFFA3DE45FFFCFFEFFFFFC721 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/039887A7FFB1DE57FCB3FF54FB68C542 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BHI , CM , MNHUK , RSM
- Material sample ID
- BHI 4100? , BHI 6230 , BHI 6233 , BHI 6435 , BHI 6436 , CM 9340 , MNHUK R7994? , RSM 2523.8?
- 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. Paul, Iv & Raalte, 2022
References
- Osborn, H. F. (1905). Tyrannosaurus and other Cretaceous carnivorous dinosaurs. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 21, 259 - 265.