Reptilia - Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Full reference: M. A. Loewen, R. B. Irmis, J. J. W. Sertich, P. J. Currie, and S. D. Sampson. 2013. Tyrant dinosaur evolution tracks the rise and fall of Late Cretaceous oceans. PLoS ONE 8(11):e79420
Belongs to Lythronax according to B. R. Peecook and C. A. Sidor 2015
See also Carr et al. 2017, Holroyd and Hutchison 2016, Loewen et al. 2013 and McDonald et al. 2018
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: UMNH VP 20200, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Nipple Butte (UMNH VP Loc. 1269), which is in a Campanian terrestrial mudstone in the Wahweap Formation of Utah.
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution: found only at Nipple Butte (UMNH VP Loc. 1269)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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