gorgosaurus

plural gorgosauruses · plural gorgosauri

1. A tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur of the genus Gorgosaurus that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period (Campanian), between about 76.6 and 75.1 million years ago.

   Gorgosauri are carnivores, usually hungry, and may attack anything encountered unless they have just eaten a very large meal.

   1987, Rudy Kraft, Paul Jaquays, Greg Stafford, Sandy Petersen, Griffin Island (RuneQuest), 3rd edition, 5th volume, Eastwood, Notts.: Games Workshop Ltd, →ISBN, page 15, column 1

   5 more examples

   No. 1 is in the Stone age, the time when man went around dressed in a bearskin and threw rocks at prehistoric monsters called Ankylosauri, Gorgosauri or Triceratops.

   1930 April 22, Murray, “Ruth Throughout the Ages”, in The Evening Star, number 31,402, Washington, D.C., page C—1, columns 3–4

   The Gorgosaurus is notable for its ability to maintain a high speed chase for some distance, unlike the Tyrannosaurus or Allosaurus. Also, it can bound for its full length in an attack leap! Like Allosaurus, Gorgosaurus is terribly jealous of its territory, but it will permit a female to range in its territory and often forms a mated pair hunting team for the spring and summer. Typical ranges are the same as that of the Allosaurus, but Gorgosauri will also enter swamps, sticking to the shallows and to the dry land of the mounds dotting swamps.

   1979, Wes Ives, Edward E. Simbalist, Saurians (Chivalry & Sorcery), Jericho, N.Y.: Fantasy Games Unlimited; republished in Red Book, 5th edition, 2013, page 59, column 1

   Having seen how quickly and savagely the gorgosauri and the allosaurus had devastated the exploration team, Ian and Rebecca had a fearful respect for the meat-eating species.

   1981, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, page 127, column 1

   Henry Beissel asks in “First Canto: Landscape,” “What artist dare raise his vision from the dead/centre of creation against this dinosaur indifference?” (CN, 7). Mention of dinosaurs, pterodactyls and gorgosauruses in particular, recurs in the Tenth and Eleventh Cantos as part of his geological imagery (CN, 45-55).

   1987, Valerie Broege, “Puer Country: Imaging Canada and Its American Shadow”, in Spring: An Annual of Archetypal Psychology and Jungian Thought, Dallas, Tex.: Spring Publications, Inc., →ISBN, →ISSN, page 22

   Hadrosaurs — duck-billed, plant-eating creatures weighing up to 3,600 kilograms — were the most common dinosaurs in what is now the park. The shallow water at the sea’s edge suited their partially webbed feet and provided vegetation for their diet. The water also served as a refuge from the giant meat-eating gorgosauruses that preyed on them.

   1995, The Beauty and Splendor of North America: Scenic Treasures of Canada and the USA, Montreal, Que.: The Reader’s Digest Association Canada Ltd., →ISBN, page 18