Reptilia - Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Synonym: Shanshanosaurinae Olshevsky 1995
Full reference: W. D. Matthew and B. Brown. 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
Parent taxon: Tyrannosauridae according to T. D. Carr et al. 2017
See also Carr et al. 2005, Carr et al. 2011, Currie 2000, Currie 2003, Currie et al. 2003, Dalman et al. 2018, Erickson et al. 2004, Hay 1930, Holtz 1997, Holtz 2001, Holtz 2004, Hone et al. 2011, Kuhn 1966, Lehman and Wick 2013, Loewen et al. 2013, Matthew and Brown 1922, Olshevsky 1995, Olshevsky 2000, Paul 1988 and Sereno 1998
Sister taxa: Albertosaurinae, Albertosaurus, Aublysodon, Gorgosaurus, Ornithomimus grandis, Tarbosaurus, Tyrannosauripodidae, Yezosaurus, Deinodontinae
Subtaxa: Alioramus Daspletosaurini Dynamoterror Lythronax Nanuqsaurus Tarbosaurini Teratophoneus Tyrannosaurini Tyrannosaurus Tyrannosaurus zhuchengensis Zhuchengtyrannus
Type: Tyrannosaurus
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (17: Alberta, Saskatchewan collections), China (4), Kazakhstan (1), Mexico (2), Mongolia (2), the Russian Federation (1), United States (108: Alaska, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 135 collections including 137 occurrences