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Tyrannosaurinae ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	65352	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=65352

Rank

subfamily (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Avetheropoda : Tyrannosauridae : Tyrannosaurinae

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
informal	Avemetatarsalia	Benton 1999
-	Ornithodira	Gauthier 1986
-	Dinosauromorpha	Benton 1985
-	Dinosauriformes	Novas 1992
-	Dinosauria
-	Saurischia
-	Theropoda
-	Neotheropoda	Bakker 1986
-	Averostra	Paul 2002
-	Tetanurae	Gauthier 1986
order	Avetheropoda	Paul 1988
suborder	Coelurosauria	Huene 1914
superfamily	Tyrannosauroidea	Walker 1964
family	Tyrannosauridae	Osborn 1906
subfamily	Tyrannosaurinae	Matthew and Brown 1922

Common Name

tyrannosaurine

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Tyrannosaurinae	subfamily	belongs to Dinodontidae	stated without evidence	Matthew and Brown, 1922
Tyrannosaurinae	subfamily	belongs to Deinodontidae	stated with evidence	Kuhn, 1966
Tyrannosaurinae	subfamily	belongs to Tyrannosauridae	stated without evidence	Paul, 1988
Tyrannosaurinae	subfamily	belongs to Tyrannosauridae	stated with evidence	Sereno, 1998
Tyrannosaurinae	subfamily	belongs to Tyrannosauridae	stated without evidence	Currie, 2000
Tyrannosaurinae	subfamily	belongs to Tyrannosauridae	stated with evidence	Holtz, 2004
Tyrannosaurinae	subfamily	belongs to Tyrannosauridae	stated without evidence	Erickson et al., 2004
Tyrannosaurinae	subfamily	belongs to Tyrannosauridae	stated with evidence	Carr et al., 2011
Tyrannosaurinae	subfamily	belongs to Tyrannosauridae	stated without evidence	Hone et al., 2011
Tyrannosaurinae	subfamily	belongs to Tyrannosauridae	stated with evidence	Lehman and Wick, 2013
Tyrannosaurinae	subfamily	belongs to Tyrannosauridae	stated without evidence	Loewen et al., 2013
Tyrannosaurinae	subfamily	belongs to Tyrannosauridae	stated with evidence	Carr et al., 2017

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

86.3 - 72.1 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

70.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Theropoda)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Theropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Coelurosauria)

Reproduction

oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Theropoda)

Ontogeny

accretion,modification of parts (based on Theropoda)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Theropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

W. D. Matthew and B. Brown. 1922. The family Deinodontidae, with notice of a new genus from the Cretaceous of Alberta. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 46(6):367-385

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Tarbosaurini ✝ tribe	listed (PBDB)
Tyrannosaurini ✝ tribe	listed (PBDB)
Alioramus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		3	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Daspletosaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		16	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Lythronax ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		1	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Nanotyrannus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		3	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Nanuqsaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Teratophoneus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		2	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Tyrannosaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Tyrant Lizard	82	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Zhuchengtyrannus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		1	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1922	Tyrannosaurinae Matthew and Brown p. 378
1966	Tyrannosaurinae Kuhn p. 96
1988	Tyrannosaurinae Paul p. 325
1995	Shanshanosaurinae Olshevsky
1997	Tyrannosaurinae Holtz, Jr. p. 53A
1998	Tyrannosaurinae Sereno p. 65
2000	Tyrannosaurinae Currie pp. 446-447
2000	Tyrannosaurinae Olshevsky p. 152
2000	Shanshanosaurinae Olshevsky p. 154
2001	Tyrannosaurinae Holtz, Jr. p. 68 fig. 7.2

Year	Name and Author
2001	Tyrannosaurus zhuchengensis Hu et al.
2003	Tyrannosaurinae Currie et al. p. 230 fig. 2
2004	Tyrannosaurinae Erickson et al. p. 773
2004	Tyrannosaurinae Holtz, Jr. p. 112
2005	Tyrannosaurinae Carr et al. p. 140 fig. 21
2011	Tyrannosaurinae Carr et al.
2011	Tyrannosaurinae Hone et al.
2013	Tyrannosaurinae Lehman and Wick
2013	Tyrannosaurinae Loewen et al. p. 2
2017	Tyrannosaurinae Carr et al. p. 9s

References

Matthew W. D., Brown B. (1922) The family Deinodontidae, with notice of a new genus from the Cretaceous of Alberta, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 46 6, 367-385

Kuhn O. W. M. (1966) , Die Reptilien. System und Stammesgeschichte [The Reptiles. Systematics and Phylogeny.], 1-154

Paul G. S. (1988) , Predatory Dinosaurs of the World. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1-464

Sereno P. C. (1998) A rationale for phylogenetic definitions, with application to the higher-level taxonomy of Dinosauria, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 210 1, 41-83

Currie P. J. (2000) Theropods from the Cretaceous of Mongolia, The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, 434-455

Currie P. J., Hurum J. H., et al (2003) Skull structure and evolution in tyrannosaurid dinosaurs, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48 2, 227-234

Erickson G. M., Makovicky P. J., et al (2004) Gigantism and comparative life-history parameters of tyrannosaurid dinosaurs, Nature 430, 772-775 doi:10.1038/nature02699

Holtz, Jr. T. R. (2004) Tyrannosauroidea, The Dinosauria (second edition). University of California Press, Berkeley, 111-136

Carr T. D., Williamson T. E., et al (2005) A new genus and species of tyrannosauroid from the Late Cretaceous (Middle Campanian) Demopolis formation of Alabama, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25 1, 119-143

Carr T. D., Williamson T. E., et al (2011) Evidence for high taxonomic and morphologic tyrannosauroid diversity in the Late Cretaceous (Late Campanian) of the American Southwest and a new short-skulled tyrannosaurid from the Kaiparowits Formation of Utah, Naturwissenschaften 98 3, 241-246 doi:10.1007/s00114-011-0762-7

Hone D. W. E., Wang K., et al (2011) A new, large tyrannosaurine theropod from the Upper Cretaceous of China, Cretaceous Research 32, 495-503 doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2011.03.005

Lehman T. M., Wick S. L. (2013) Tyrannosauroid dinosaurs from the Aguja Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Big Bend National Park, Texas, Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 103, 1-15

Loewen M. A., Irmis R. B., et al (2013) Tyrant dinosaur evolution tracks the rise and fall of Late Cretaceous oceans, PLoS ONE 8 11, e79420 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0079420

Carr T. D., Varricchio D. J., et al (2017) A new tyrannosaur with evidence for anagenesis and crocodile-like facial sensory system, Scientific Reports 7, 44942:1-11 doi:10.1038/srep44942

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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