- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Abbreviations Used in Figures
- Foreword
- Introduction
- One Origin and Relationships of Dinosauria
- Saurischia
- Two Basal Saurischia
- Three Ceratosauria
- Four Basal Tetanurae
- Five Tyrannosauroidea
- Six Ornithomimosauria
- Seven Therizinosauroidea
- Eight Oviraptorosauria
- Nine Troodontidae
- Ten Dromaeosauridae
- Eleven Basal Avialae
- Twelve Prosauropoda
- Thirteen Sauropoda
- Ornithischia
- Fourteen Basal Ornithischia
- Fifteen Basal Thyreophora
- Sixteen Stegosauria
- Seventeen Ankylosauria
- Eighteen Basal Ornithopoda
- Nineteen Basal Iguanodontia
- Twenty Hadrosauridae
- Twenty-One Pachycephalosauria
- Twenty-Two Basal Ceratopsia
- Twenty-Three Ceratopsidae
- Twenty-Four Dinosaur Distribution
- Twenty-Five Dinosaur Taphonomy
- Twenty-Six Dinosaur Paleoecology
- Twenty-Seven Mesozoic Biogeography of Dinosauria
- Twenty-Eight Physiology of Nonavian Dinosaurs
- Twenty-Nine Dinosaur Physiology
- Thirty Dinosaur Extinction
- Literature Cited
- Contributors
- Genera and Species Index
- Stratigraphic and Geographic Index
- Subject Index
Tyrannosauroidea
Tyrannosauroidea
- Chapter:
- (p.111) Five Tyrannosauroidea
- Source:
- The Dinosauria
- Author(s):
Thomas R. Holtz
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
Tyrannosauroids are among the most distinctive and best known of Mesozoic theropods. Diagnostic skeletal material for Tyrannosauridae is at present limited to the last part of the Late Cretaceous of eastern and central Asia (China and Mongolia) and North America; the more inclusive Tyrannosauroidea includes taxa from the Late Jurassic of Europe and North America and the Early Cretaceous of Europe and Asia. Tyrannosaurids include some of the largest known theropod taxa (up to 13 m long and weighing six or more tonnes). The five most completely known species (Tyrannosaurus rex, Tarbosaurus bataar, Daspletosaurus torosus, Albertosaurus sarcophagus, and Gorgosaurus libratus) are all represented by individuals with femora more than 100 cm in length, reaching 138 cm in the largest Tyrannosaurus rex.
Keywords: Tyrannosauroids, Tyrannosauridae, Tyrannosaurus rex, Tarbosaurus bataar, Daspletosaurus torosus, Albertosaurus sarcophagus, Gorgosaurus libratus
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Abbreviations Used in Figures
- Foreword
- Introduction
- One Origin and Relationships of Dinosauria
- Saurischia
- Two Basal Saurischia
- Three Ceratosauria
- Four Basal Tetanurae
- Five Tyrannosauroidea
- Six Ornithomimosauria
- Seven Therizinosauroidea
- Eight Oviraptorosauria
- Nine Troodontidae
- Ten Dromaeosauridae
- Eleven Basal Avialae
- Twelve Prosauropoda
- Thirteen Sauropoda
- Ornithischia
- Fourteen Basal Ornithischia
- Fifteen Basal Thyreophora
- Sixteen Stegosauria
- Seventeen Ankylosauria
- Eighteen Basal Ornithopoda
- Nineteen Basal Iguanodontia
- Twenty Hadrosauridae
- Twenty-One Pachycephalosauria
- Twenty-Two Basal Ceratopsia
- Twenty-Three Ceratopsidae
- Twenty-Four Dinosaur Distribution
- Twenty-Five Dinosaur Taphonomy
- Twenty-Six Dinosaur Paleoecology
- Twenty-Seven Mesozoic Biogeography of Dinosauria
- Twenty-Eight Physiology of Nonavian Dinosaurs
- Twenty-Nine Dinosaur Physiology
- Thirty Dinosaur Extinction
- Literature Cited
- Contributors
- Genera and Species Index
- Stratigraphic and Geographic Index
- Subject Index
