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I recently read that the only skeleton currently known of Appalachiosaurus was of a juvenile, and the adult animal was significantly bigger. The juvenile skeleton was about 21 feet long, and the animal likely weighed 1,300 pounds. This skeleton is about the size of a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex (using the "Jane" specimen for scale, BMRP 2002.4.1) and, this raises a question in my mind. Is it possible that Appalachiosaurus montgomeriensis would have attained adult sizes close to what we see in adult specimens of Tyrannosaurus rex? And as such, could we classify it as a me
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In a previous post, I discussed if Tyrannosaurus rex (Tyrannosaur, Western North America) (Late Cretaceous 68-66 Million Years ago) was able to colonize Eastern North America as the Western Interior Seaway retreat by the early Maastrichtian (I received excellent feedback from other four members, notably @Troodon, that this was prevented by the KT Mass Extinction event 66 Million Years ago). As a result, I don't believe Tyrannosaurus rex was able to effectively colonize Eastern North America (as far as I'm currently aware). However, looking over some records of Late Cretaceous Tyran
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The North American Tyrannosauroidea Species from the Aptian-Santonian Cretaceous
Joseph Fossil posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
The Tyrannosaur Dinosaurs (Tyrannosauroidea) inhabited North America from 152 Million Years ago during the Late Jurassic era up until 66 Million Years ago during the Late Cretaceous era. https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app20110141.html However, there is a relatively large geologic gap between the time of the Late Jurassic to the Santonian-Campanian stages of the Cretaceous (when the the oldest known Tyrannosaurid Lythronax (Late Creteaceous, 81.9-81.5 Million Years ago) emerged) in terms of the number of Tyrannosauroidae confirmed in North America. However, thi -
Likely/possible specimens of Tyrannosauroidea from the Southern Hemisphere (Jurassic-Early Late Cretaceous)
Joseph Fossil posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
As a freshmen in College, I did a little extra credit report for my geology class about a controversial topic - Tyrannosauroidea diversity in the Southern Hemisphere during the Jurassic-Early Late Cretaceous periods. I was quite surprised at the amount of specimens I found. This diversity likely was the result of an early spread of the early tyrannosaur group Pantyrannosauria into Africa, Eurasia, and North America during the Jurassic and diversified once the land connecting these continents spread out more. Most of these species lived during the Early Cretaceous, though one or two exceptions -
So, after watching a video that Peter Larson posted on Instagram about nanotyrannus, I was pretty convinced that it is a valid genus. That got me wondering. Where does it fit in the tyrannosaur family tree? Is it more related to Tyrannosaurus rex, or another tyrannosaur? I saw an article that was trying to prove that Nanotyrannus was, instead of being in tyrannosauridae with animals like tyrannosaurus and tarbosaurus, it was in dryptosauridae with dryptosaurus and appalachiosaurus. I'm very curious about everyone else's opinions but I myself am rather convinced. links: Pete's
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A while back, I was researching the number of likely Tyrannosauroidea dinosaurs that inhabited the Southern Hemisphere (I know this is a very controversial subject) in the Early Cretaceous for an extra credit research paper I was doing for my freshmen year college geology class. As I was looking for data for the paper, I found an unusual data entry on the paleontological database website fossilworks.org - It lists Tyrannosauridae remains from Jurassic Madagascar. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=collectionSearch&collection_no=55391 The specimen
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