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
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Paul, Gregory S.
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Iv, W. Scott Persons
Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, College of Charleston, 202 Calhoun St, Charleston, SC 29401, USA
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Van Raalte, Jay
3100 St. Paul St. 604, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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Evolutionary Biology
2022
2022-03-01
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-022-09561-5
journal article
10.1007/s11692-022-09561-5
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Tyrannosaurus imperator
sp. nov.
(Morphotype 1)
Etymology
: Tyrant lizard emperor
Holotype
:
FMNH PR2081
Referred specimens
:
BHI 4182
,
BHI 6231
,
6248
,
HMN MB.R.91216
,
MOR 1125
,
MOR 1128
,
RGM 792.000
,
SDSM 12047
,
TCM2001.90.1
,
TMT v2222
,
NMNNH P-3698?
Age and Stratigraphy
: Late Maastrichtian, lower, lower middle and possibly middle Hell Creek and Lance, Laramie, Arapahoe, McRae? North Horn? Javelina?
Geographic distribution
: Montana, Dakotas, Wyoming, New Mexico? Texas? Utah?
Diagnosis
: Generally robust with an adult femur-length/ circumference ratio of 2.4 or less; usually two slender anterior incisiform dentary teeth.