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Tyrannosaurus

Ate: MeatTyrannosaursLate Cretaceous

Tyrannosaurus was one of the tyrannosaurs. Its fossils come from rocks about 84 to 66 million years old.1

Lived

84 to 66 million years ago1

Late Cretaceous

Most fossils found in

USA, Canada1

plus records from 3 more countries

Food

Meat1

Artist's life restoration of Tyrannosaurus — How Tyrannosaurus may have looked, by Steveoc 86. CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Scientists still argue about colours and details.

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

For dino experts

Scientific name: Tyrannosaurus
Named by: Osborn 19051
Group: Tyrannosaurs
Family / clade: Tyrannosauridae1
Classification: Theropoda > Tyrannosauroidea > Tyrannosauridae1
Age of the rocks: 84 to 66 million years (Campanian to Maastrichtian)1
Rock formations: Hell Creek, Lance, Denver1
Countries: USA, Canada, Russia, Mexico, China1
Fossil records: 87 in the Paleobiology Database1
Also known as: Dinotyrannus, Dynamosaurus, Manospondylus, Stygivenator (older names now counted as the same animal)1

Where the facts come from

Tyrannosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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