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Description

Albertosaurus (meaning "Alberta lizard") is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaurs that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period, about 70 million years ago. The type species, A. sarcophagus, was apparently restricted in range to the modern-day Canadian province of Alberta, after which the genus is named. Scientists disagree on the content of the genus, with some recognizing Gorgosaurus libratus as a second species.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albertosaurus_sarcophagus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4966241	https://www.gbif.org/species/4966241
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	56319	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=56319

Rank

species

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Tyrannosauridae : Albertosaurus : Albertosaurus sarcophagus

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Avetheropoda : Tyrannosauridae : Albertosaurus : Albertosaurus sarcophagus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

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
genus	Albertosaurus	Osborn 1905
species	Albertosaurus sarcophagus	Osborn 1905

Generic Name

Albertosaurus

Scientific Name

Albertosaurus sarcophagus Osborn, 1905

Name Published In

Osborn, Henry F. 1905. Tyrannosaurus and other Cretaceous carnivorous dinosaurs. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 21: 259-265.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Albertosaurus sarcophagus	species	belongs to Albertosaurus	stated with evidence	Osborn, 1905
Albertosaurus sarcophagus	species	belongs to Albertosaurus	stated without evidence	Brown, 1914
Albertosaurus sarcophagus	species	belongs to Albertosaurus	stated with evidence	Molnar et al., 1990
Albertosaurus sarcophagus	species	belongs to Albertosaurus	stated without evidence	Carpenter, 1992
Albertosaurus sarcophagus	species	belongs to Albertosaurus	stated with evidence	Holtz, 2004
Albertosaurus sarcophagus	species	belongs to Albertosaurus	stated without evidence	Carr et al., 2005

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

83.6 - 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)

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

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albertosaurus_sarcophagus

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Fossil Distribution

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Albertosaurus arctunguis Parks, 1928	GBIF	species	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Tyrannosauridae : Albertosaurus : *Albertosaurus arctunguis*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1905	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Osborn p. 265
1914	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Brown p. 374
1922	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Matthew and Brown p. 378
1926	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Huene p. 101
1927	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Huene p. 260
1928	Albertosaurus arctunguis Parks
1930	Albertosaurus arctunguis Russell p. 150
1930	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Russell p. 150
1931	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Stromer p. 10
1933	Albertosaurus arctunguis Russell p. 129
1933	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Russell p. 129
1934	Albertosaurus arctunguis Stromer p. 16
1934	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Stromer p. 55
1935	Albertosaurus arctunguis Lowe p. 425 fig. 10
1935	Albertosaurus arctunguis Parks p. 195
1946	Albertosaurus arctunguis Gilmore pp. 16-17
1946	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Gilmore pp. 16-17
1964	Albertosaurus arctunguis Russell p. 15
1964	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Russell p. 15
1966	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Russell p. 9
1966	Albertosaurus arctunguis Russell p. 29
1967	Albertosaurus arctunguis Russell and Chamney p. 10
1967	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Russell and Chamney p. 10
1970	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Russell p. 4
1970	Albertosaurus arctunguis Steel p. 40
1970	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Steel p. 40
1976	Albertosaurus arctunguis Coulton p. 177
1976	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Coulton p. 177
1977	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Perle p. 111
1979	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Baird and Horner p. 9

Year	Name and Author
1980	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Drake p. 194
1980	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Molnar p. 102
1980	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Molnar and Pledge p. 285 fig. 3
1986	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Gauthier p. 9
1988	Albertosaurus arctunguis Paul p. 332
1988	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Paul p. 333
1989	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Mader and Bradley p. 44
1990	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Molnar et al. p. 189
1992	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Carpenter pp. 257-8
1992	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Currie p. 246
1997	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Eberth p. 201
1999	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Carr pp. 498-499
2000	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Currie p. 271
2001	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Holtz, Jr. p. 69 fig. 7.2
2003	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Currie et al. p. 231
2003	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Rauhut p. 43
2004	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Holtz, Jr. p. 112
2005	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Carr et al. p. 140 fig. 21
2005	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Currie et al. p. 318
2006	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Urban and Lamanna p. 234
2010	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Bell p. 1264
2010	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Tanke and Currie p. 1210
2011	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Carr et al.
2011	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Hone et al. p. 502
2012	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Paulina Carabajal and Currie p. 88
2013	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Bell and Coria p. 1
2013	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Dalman p. 242
2013	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Ibiricu et al. p. 8
2014	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Williamson and Brusatte p. 7
2017	Albertosaurus sarcophagus Carr et al. p. 9s

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Brown B. (1914) Cretaceous Eocene correlation in New Mexico, Wyoming, Montana, Alberta, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 25, 355-380

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

Huene F. v. (1926) The carnivorous Saurischia in the Jura and Cretaceous formations, principally in Europe, Revista del Museo de La Plata 29, 35-167

Huene F. v. (1927) Contribución a la paleogeografía de Sud América [Contribution to the paleogeography of South America], Boletín de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de la República Argentina 30, 231-294

Stromer E. (1931) Ergebnisse der Forschungsreisen Prof. E. Stromers in den Wüsten Ägyptens. II. Wirbeltier-Reste der Baharîjestufe (unterstes Cenoman). 10. Ein Skelett-Rest von Carcharodontosaurus nov. gen, Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Abteilung, Neue Folge 9, 1-23

Russell L. S. (1933) The Cretaceous-Tertiary transition of Alberta, Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, series 3 26 4, 121-156

Stromer E. (1934) Ergebnisse der Forschungsreisen Prof. E. Stromers in den Wüsten Ägyptens. II. Wirbeltierreste der Baharîje-Stufe (unterstes Cenoman). 13. Dinosauria [Results of the expeditions of Professor E. Stromer in the Egyptian deserts. II. Vertebrate animal remains from the Baharîje bed (lowest Cenomanian). 13. Dinosauria], Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Abteilung, Neue Folge 22, 1-79

Gilmore C. W. (1946) A new carnivorous dinosaur from the Lance Formation of Montana, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 106 13, 1-19

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Russell L. S. (1966) Dinosaur hunting in western Canada, Royal Ontario Museum, Life Sciences Contribution 70, 1-37

Russell D. A. (1970) Tyrannosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of western Canada, National Museum of Natural Sciences, Publications in Paleontology 1, 1-34

Steel R. (1970) Part 14. Saurischia, Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie/Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1-87

Perle A. (1977) O pervoy nakhodke Alektrozavra (Tyrannosauridae, Theropoda) iz pozdnego Mela Mongolii [On the first discovery of Alectrosaurus (Tyrannosauridae, Theropoda) in the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia], Shinzhlekh Ukhaany Akademi Geologiin Khureelen 3 3, 104-113

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Molnar R. E. (1980) An albertosaur from the Hell Creek Formation of Montana, Journal of Paleontology 54 1, 102-108

Molnar R. E., Pledge N. S. (1980) A new theropod dinosaur from South Australia, Alcheringa 4, 281-287

Gauthier J. A. (1986) Saurischian monophyly and the origin of birds, The Origin of Birds and the Evolution of Flight, K. Padian (ed.), Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences 8, 1-55

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