Tyrannosaurinae

Tyrannosaurinae is one of the two extinct subfamilies of Tyrannosauridae, a family of coelurosaurian theropods that consists of at least three tribes and several genera. All fossils of these genera have been found in the Late Cretaceous deposits of western North America and east Asia. Compared to the related subfamily Albertosaurinae, tyrannosaurines overall are more robust and larger though the alioramins were gracile by comparison. This subfamily also includes Lythronax, one of the oldest known tyrannosaurid genera, as well as the youngest and most famous member of the group, Tyrannosaurus rex.

Tyrannosaurinae

Gary Todd · CC0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
tyrannosaurinePBDB
Sits inside
TyrannosauridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
Life habit
ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 212 of 212 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 212 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 5 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 5 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 4 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 4 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 4 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 4 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 4 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 4 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 4 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 4 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 4 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 4 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 4 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 4 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 4 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 6 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 19 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 19 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 19 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 19 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 19 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 19 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 19 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 8 occurrences83.6 Mya72.2 Mya90.3 Mya65.5 Mya

212 occurrences of Tyrannosaurinae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

212 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

40 formations

Nemegt — 43.54°N, 99.60°ENemegt — 43.57°N, 100.48°ENemegt — 43.44°N, 100.37°ENemegt — 43.48°N, 100.36°ENemegt — 43.52°N, 101.03°ENemegt — 43.58°N, 100.44°ENemegt — 43.50°N, 101.05°ENemegt — 43.87°N, 100.01°ENemegt — 43.82°N, 99.98°ENemegt — 43.47°N, 99.83°ENemegt — 43.85°N, 100.14°ENemegt — 43.48°N, 100.46°ENemegt — 43.49°N, 101.28°ENemegt — 43.61°N, 100.57°ENemegt — 43.99°N, 101.28°ENemegt — 43.50°N, 100.33°EHell Creek — 47.54°N, 107.08°WHell Creek — 45.95°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 46.10°N, 103.30°WHell Creek — 45.98°N, 103.75°WHell Creek — 46.14°N, 103.80°WHell Creek — 46.41°N, 103.94°WHell Creek — 46.38°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 46.45°N, 103.02°WHell Creek — 46.46°N, 104.02°WHell Creek — 46.33°N, 103.90°WHell Creek — 45.94°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 47.96°N, 106.46°WHell Creek — 45.65°N, 103.62°WHell Creek — 47.57°N, 107.08°WHell Creek — 45.53°N, 101.63°WHell Creek — 45.06°N, 103.45°WHell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHell Creek — 45.73°N, 104.89°WHell Creek — 46.41°N, 103.50°WHell Creek — 47.73°N, 106.26°WHell Creek — 45.05°N, 101.97°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 107.00°WHell Creek — 45.66°N, 105.08°WHell Creek — 45.89°N, 104.55°WHell Creek — 45.50°N, 103.10°WHell Creek — 45.64°N, 103.49°WHell Creek — 47.89°N, 106.31°WHell Creek — 45.00°N, 103.19°WHell Creek — 45.98°N, 105.04°WHell Creek — 46.95°N, 107.24°WAguja — 29.32°N, 103.52°WAguja — 29.23°N, 103.64°WAguja — 29.25°N, 103.55°WAguja — 29.13°N, 103.20°WMilk River — 49.10°N, 111.80°WLance — 43.49°N, 104.46°WLance — 43.44°N, 104.41°WLance — 48.29°N, 105.84°WLance — 43.12°N, 104.64°WLance — 43.13°N, 104.07°WLance — 43.17°N, 104.53°WLance — 43.27°N, 104.65°WLance — 43.37°N, 104.70°WLance — 43.42°N, 104.49°WLance — 45.35°N, 105.24°WLance — 44.94°N, 108.85°WLance — 47.48°N, 104.48°WTwo Medicine — 48.63°N, 113.75°WTwo Medicine — 47.81°N, 112.18°WTwo Medicine — 47.82°N, 112.66°WTwo Medicine — 47.63°N, 112.58°WDinosaur Park — 50.73°N, 111.52°WDinosaur Park — 50.84°N, 111.79°WDinosaur Park — 50.72°N, 111.56°WDinosaur Park — 50.83°N, 111.59°WDenver — 39.75°N, 105.20°WDenver — 39.87°N, 105.11°WDenver — 39.61°N, 105.02°WDenver — 39.84°N, 105.04°WOldman — 49.08°N, 110.68°WOldman — 50.75°N, 111.49°WOldman — 50.69°N, 111.62°WOldman — 50.81°N, 111.63°WKirtland — 36.49°N, 108.57°WKirtland — 36.34°N, 108.08°WKirtland — 36.29°N, 108.55°WKirtland — 36.51°N, 108.32°WFerris — 41.93°N, 106.89°WFerris — 41.80°N, 107.00°WKaiparowits — 37.45°N, 111.53°WKaiparowits — 37.49°N, 111.74°WScollard — 51.91°N, 113.03°WScollard — 51.93°N, 113.23°WFruitland — 36.06°N, 107.97°WFruitland — 36.29°N, 108.55°WUdurchukan — 49.08°N, 130.86°EFrenchman — 49.52°N, 108.82°WFrenchman — 50.21°N, 107.37°WHongtuya — 35.96°N, 119.33°EHongtuya — 37.47°N, 120.98°ESubashi — 42.82°N, 89.86°EJudith River — 47.40°N, 109.65°WJudith River — 48.41°N, 106.87°WBeds of Nogon Tsav — 43.00°N, 99.00°EForemost — 49.94°N, 111.69°WForemost — 50.11°N, 111.77°WLaramie — 40.39°N, 104.49°WYuliangzi — 48.86°N, 130.24°EQiupa — 33.93°N, 111.77°E

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The named rock units Tyrannosaurinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tyrannosaurinae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Tyrannosaurinae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

612 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 202 sites for Tyrannosaurinae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

98 references

Each of the 212 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 86 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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Picture of Tyrannosaurinae

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Gary Todd
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CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew and Brown 1922