A new tyrannosaurine (Theropoda: Tyrannosauridae) from the Campanian Foremost Formation of Alberta, Canada, provides insight into the evolution and biogeography of tyrannosaurids
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Voris, Jared T.
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Therrien, François
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Zelenitsky, Darla K.
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Brown, Caleb M.
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Cretaceous Research
2020
2020-01-23
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10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104388
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Daspletosaurini clade nov.
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Definition
.
The most inclusive clade that includes all taxa closer to
Daspletosaurus torosus
than to
Albertosaurus
sarcophagus
,
Alioramus remotus
,
Teratophoneus curriei
, or
Tyrannosaurus
rex
.
Diagnosis.
Daspletosaurini is diagnosed by the presence of an extremely coarse subcutaneous surface of the maxilla anteroventral to the antorbital fossa; a constricted jugal ramus of the maxilla; the anteroventral corner of the maxilla tapers into a shallow angle (
<
69) as measured between the alveolar margin of the first two alveoli and the anterior margin of the subcutaneous surface; a prefrontal that is broad in dorsal view and strongly dorsomedially arced in anterior view; and a dentary chin located ventral to either the third alveolus or third interdental plate. Daspletosaurins also differ from all other tyrannosaurines of subadult/adult size, except alioramins, in having no fewer than 14 maxillary teeth (see
Carr et al., 2017
).
Included taxa.
Daspletosaurus torosus
Russell (1970)
,
Daspletosaurus horneri
Carr et al. (2017)
, and
Thanatotheristes
degrootorum
gen. et. sp. nov.