The phylogeny and taxonomy of the Tyrannosauridae
Author
Holtz, T. R.
text
2001
2001-12-31
Indiana University Press
Bloomington
Editor
Tanke D. H.
Editor
Carpenter K.
Mesozoic Vertebrate Life
64
83
book chapter
10.5281/zenodo.3245327
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Albertosaurus sarcophagus
Osborn 1905
:
A taxon at present only known from the Early Maastrichtian Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta. The juvenile tyrannosaurid specimen from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation referred by
Russell (1970)
to
Daspletosaurus
(a taxon otherwise unknown from the Maastrichtian) may in fact be a juvenile
Albertosaurus
. More recently discovered material, as yet unpublished, helps to better document the rest of the anatomy of this dinosaur.
Albertosaurus
is comparable to
Gorgosaurus
in size, and like that taxon lacks many derived features shared by
Daspletosaurus
and
Tyrannosaurus
,