tyrannosaurid

plural tyrannosaurids

1. biologyAny dinosaur in the family Tyrannosauridae.

   Similarly, the North American tyrannosaurid, Aublysodon, is reported from east Asia.

   1965, David Jay Simmons, The non-therapsid reptiles of the Lufeng Basin, Yunnan, China, page 84

   2 more examples

   Once again, Phil Currie says it definitely was a tyrannosaurid, most closely related, by braincase comparison, to Tarbosaurus. Chingkankousaurus fragilis was named by C. C. Yang in China in 1958.

   1993, John R. Horner, The Complete T. Rex, page 134

   Most famous for the last and largest member of the clade, Tyrannosaurus rex, tyrannosaurids at first glance seem very far removed from the ostrichlike ornithomimosaurs.

   2003, Gregory Paul, The Scientific American Book of Dinosaurs, page 155