Reptilia - Avetheropoda - Tyrannosauridae

PaleoDB taxon number: 38613

Synonyms: Dinotyrannus Olshevsky 1995 (no. 67645), Dynamosaurus Osborn 1905 (no. 56317), Manospondylus Cope 1892 (no. 63934), Monospondylus Cope 1892 (no. 359253), Stygivenator Olshevsky 1995 (no. 67646)

Full reference: H. F. Osborn. 1905. Tyrannosaurus and other Cretaceous carnivorous dinosaurs. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 21(14):259-265

Parent taxon: Tyrannosaurinae according to T. D. Carr et al. 2017

Sister taxa: Alioramus, Daspletosaurus, Lythronax, Nanotyrannus, Nanuqsaurus, Tarbosaurini, Teratophoneus, Tyrannosaurini, Tyrannosaurus zhuchengensis, Zhuchengtyrannus

Subtaxa: Tyrannosauripus, Tyrannosaurus rex, Tyrannosaurus turpanensis

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Type: Tyrannosaurus rex

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore