tyrannosaur

plural tyrannosaurs

1. Any large bipedal carnivorous dinosaur, of the family Tyrannosauridae, that lived in North America during the Cretaceous period.

   Instead it belongs to a new species of tyrannosaur, which the researchers have dubbed Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis in a paper published on January 11 in Scientific Reports.

   2024 November 1, Meghan Bartels, “Enigmatic Dinosaur Skull Sparks Debate over Tyrannosaur Evolution”, in Scientific American

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   So far, Druckenmiller and his team have dug up species from seven different dino families: from big duck-billed dinos, ceretopsians, and tyrannosaurs to smaller thescelosaurs, leptoceratops, dromaeosaurs, and troodontids.

   2021 September 21, Karen Hopkin, “Dinosaurs Lived—and Made Little Dinos—in the Arctic”, in Scientific American