Tyrannosaurinae

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Tyrannosaurinae
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
81.9–66  Ma
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Skull of Alioramus .
Tyrannosaurus rex theropod dinosaur (Hell Creek Formation, Upper Cretaceous; near Faith, northwestern South Dakota, USA) 2 (15157270200).jpg
Skull of Tyrannosaurus .
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Family:† Tyrannosauridae
Subfamily:† Tyrannosaurinae
Osborn, 1906
Type genus
† Tyrannosaurus
Osborn, 1905
Subgroups [1]

Tyrannosaurinae (sometimes referred to as tyrannosaurines) 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 the oldest known tyrannosaurid genus Lythronax as well as the youngest and most famous member of the group, Tyrannosaurus rex . There were at least 30 different species of tyrannosaurines.

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History of discovery

Deinodon teeth, the earliest known tyrannosaurid remains Deinodon.JPG
Deinodon teeth, the earliest known tyrannosaurid remains

The first remains of tyrannosaurids were uncovered during expeditions led by the Geological Survey of Canada, which located numerous scattered teeth. These distinctive dinosaur teeth were given the name Deinodon ("terrible tooth") by Joseph Leidy in 1856. In 1892 Edward Drinker Cope described more tyrannosaur material in the form of isolated vertebrae, and gave this animal the name Manospondylus gigas . This discovery was mostly overlooked for over a century, and caused controversy in the early 2000s when it was discovered that this material actually belonged to, and had name priority over, Tyrannosaurus rex . [3] Later in 1905 Henry Fairfield Osborn described two tyrannosaur specimens that had been collected in Montana and Wyoming during a 1902 expedition of the American Museum of Natural History, led by Barnum Brown. Initially, Osborn considered these to be distinct species. The first, he named Dynamosaurus imperiosus ("emperor power lizard"), and the second, Tyrannosaurus rex ("king tyrant lizard"). A year later, Osborn recognized that these two specimens actually came from the same species. Despite the fact that Dynamosaurus had been found first, the name Tyrannosaurus had appeared one page earlier in his original article describing both specimens. Therefore, according to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), the name Tyrannosaurus was used. [4]

The second described representative of the tyrannosaurines, Tarbosaurus (originally described as an Asiatic representative of Tyrannosaurus) was in 1955 after a large skull was recovered in a joint Soviet-Mongolian expedition to the Gobi Desert in the Mongolian Ömnögovi Province in 1946. The holotype was named as Tyrannosaurus bataar by Evgeny Maleev as Tyrannosaurus bataar. [5] The genus Tarbosaurus was also described in the same year based on PIN 551–2, a specimen with a skull and skeletal remains discovered by the same expedition in 1948 and 1949 as Tarbosaurus efremovi. [6] It was only in 1965 that Ty. bataar and Ta. efremovi were the same species, the latter being a younger animal, and distinct from Tyrannosaurus recognized by A.K. Rozhdestvensky who recombined the species as Tarbosaurus bataar. [7]

In the 1970s saw the description of two genera. In 1970 saw the publication of Daspletosaurus , with the holotype CMN 8506 consisting of a partial skeleton including the skull, the shoulder, a forelimb, the pelvis, a femur and all of the vertebrae from the neck, torso and hip, as well as the first eleven tail vertebrae. It was discovered in 1921 near Steveville, Alberta, by Charles Mortram Sternberg, who thought it was a new species of Gorgosaurus, but was found to be a new genus by Dale Russell using the aforementioned CMN 8506. [8] The second, Alioramus , described in 1976 by Sergei Kurzanov which the holotype (PIN 3141/1) is a partial skull associated with three metatarsals found by a joint Soviet-Mongolian expedition to the Gobi Desert in the early 1970s found these remains at a locality known as Nogon-Tsav in the Mongolian province of Bayankhongor, Nemegt Formation. [9]

From 1977 to 2009 saw the publications of several genera. In Asia they include Shanshanosaurus (1977), [10] Maleevosaurus (1992), [11] and Raptorex (2009), [12] while in North America saw Nanotyrannus (1988), [13] Dinotyrannus and Stygivenator (1995). [14] These genera, however are controversial as the remains of these animals are immature or juvenile individuals. With the possible exception of Raptorex, [15] it is widely assumed that the Asian specimens are early growth stages of Tarbosaurus, [16] [17] [18] whereas the North American specimens are those of Tyrannosaurus. [19] [20]

Skeletal diagrams showing holotype remains of Lythronax (A) and a Teratophoneus specimen (B). N-P show selected bones of the former Journal.pone.0079420.g001.tif
Skeletal diagrams showing holotype remains of Lythronax (A) and a Teratophoneus specimen (B). N–P show selected bones of the former

Valid genera would not be named until the 2010s, where in 2011 announced the publication of Teratophoneus by Thomas D. Carr and colleagues. The fossils were first found in the Kaiparowits Formation of southern Utah. Later, fossils from the same formation were discovered and identified as the genus. Argon-argon radiometric dating indicates that the Kaiparowits Formation was deposited between 76.1 and 74.0 million years ago, during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous period. This date means that Teratophoneus lived in the middle of the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous. [21] In the same year Zhuchengtyrannus was named by David W. E. Hone and colleagues based on the holotype ZCDM V0031, a nearly complete right maxilla and associated left dentary (lower jaw, both with teeth) housed at Zhucheng Dinosaur Museum. [22] In 2014 came Nanuqsaurus , the northern most tyrannosaurid found in Prince Creek Formation of the North Slope of Alaska, United States. [23] [24] In the same year also announced Qianzhousaurus known from a partial sub-adult individual consisting of a nearly complete skull with the lower jaws missing all teeth (lost during fossilization), 9 cervical vertebrae, 3 dorsal vertebrae, 18 caudal vertebrae, both scapulocoracoids, partial ilia, and the left hindlimb compromising the femur, tibia, fibula, astragalus with calcaneum, and metatarsals III and IV. [25] Lythronax , the oldest known member of Tyrannosauridae, was described in 2013 by Mark A. Loewen and colleagues from a nearly complete specimen that was uncovered in 2009 in the Wahweap Formation of the Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument. [26]

Natural history

Description

Size of A. remotus compared with a human Alioramus skeletal steveoc.png
Size of A. remotus compared with a human
The specimens "Sue", AMNH 5027, "Stan", and "Jane", to scale with a human. Tyrannosaurus specimens.svg
The specimens "Sue", AMNH 5027, "Stan", and "Jane", to scale with a human.

In comparison to the albertosaurines, tyrannosaurines were more heavily built and larger. The alioramin genera of Qianzhousaurus and Alioramus, however, were the exception, as they were more comparable in built to albertosaurines and have longirostrine snouts. [25] Like albertosaurines, tyrannosaurines also had heterodont dentition, large heads design to catch and kill their prey, and short didactyl arms. Based on the growth stages of Tyrannosaurus (and possibly Tarbosaurus [18] ), tyrannosaurines undergone ontogenetic changes from gracile or slender, semi-longirostrine immatures to robust, heavy-headed adults. This implies that these animals occupy different ecological niches as they developed. [20] While there is fossil evidence of earlier tyrannosauroids having feathers, [27] [28] the evidence of such structures in tyrannosaurids is controversial as a study in 2017 from Bell and colleagues found no support in feathered integument in tyrannosaurids. [29] The study used skin impressions which are small, found widely dispersed across the post-cranium at different regions of the body with a pattern similar to crocodiles. Further the croc analogy Thomas Carr and colleagues in 2017 by studying the snout of Daspletosaurus suggested they have large scales with sensory sensory neuron pits under the skin. [30] This notion has been challenged from other authors who suggested a more lip-covering of the teeth. [31]

Distribution

The temporal range for tyrannosaurines went from almost 80.6 million years ago in the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous epoch to 66 million years ago in the Maastrichtian stage. Fossils have been found in different formations in what is now east Asia and western North America. While the Asian alioramins are the basal most group of the tyrannosaurines, the geographic placement of albertosaurines and other eutyrannosaurian tyrannosauroids found in North America suggests greatly the tyrannosaurines are North American in origin. [32]

Systematics

Prior to the 2010s, the relationships of the tyrannosaurines was best understood as Tyrannosaurus being a sister taxon to Tarbosaurus. These two genera in turn were the sister taxon to Daspletosaurus, follow by Alioramus. There was an alternative hypothesis from Phil Currie and colleagues (2003) who suggested Daspletosaurus to be more closely related to Tarbosaurus and Alioramus than to Tyrannosaurus based on cranial features. [33] This relationship, however, has not been found in more recent studies. [21] [23] [26] [32] [34] In 1988 Gregory Paul considered all tyrannosaurines at the time except Alioramus to be species of Tyrannosaurus. [35] In the second edition of The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs published in 2016, Paul would continue this thought as well as including Bistahieversor , Teratophoneus, Lythronax, and Nanuqsaurus into the genus as well. [36] This multispecies Tyrannosaurus classification is, however, not widely accepted by most paleontologists. [34] In some phylogenetic studies Bistahieversor is nested within Tyrannosaurinae, [23] [26] but it is most often recovered as the sister taxon to Tyrannosauridae instead. [32] [34]

The cladogram below displays the position of the Tyrannosaurinae within Eutyrannosauria and Tyrannosauridae, based on the results of phylogenetic analyses performed by Voris et al. (2020): [34]

Eutyrannosauria

As of 2023, at least three lineages of tyrannosaurines have been suggested. [34] The basalmost clade is the Alioramini. The second clade to diverge is the Teratophoneini, which comprises the American southwest taxa Dynamoterror, Lythronax, and Teratophoneus. They are sister to a third clade comprising Nanuqsaurus and the clade containing Daspletosaurini, which includes Daspletosaurus and Thanatotheristes, and the Tyrannosaurini, which includes Zhuchengtyrannus, Tarbosaurus, and Tyrannosaurus. [2]

The cladogram below displays the results of the strict consensus phylogenetic analysis performed by Scherer & Voiculescu-Holvad (2023), indicating the distinct lineages of tyrannosaurines. [2]

Tyrannosaurinae

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tyrannosauridae</span> Family of dinosaurs

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<i>Tarbosaurus</i> Tyrannosaurid dinosaur genus from Late Cretaceous of Mongolia

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<i>Daspletosaurus</i> Genus of tyrannosaurid dinosaur from Late Cretaceous period

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<i>Alioramus</i> Tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur genus from the Late Cretaceous period

Alioramus is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous period of Asia. It currently contains two species. The type species, A. remotus is known from a partial skull and three foot bones recovered from the Mongolian Nemegt Formation, which was deposited in a humid floodplain about 70 million years ago. These remains were named and described by Soviet paleontologist Sergei Kurzanov in 1976. A second species, A. altai, known from a much more complete skeleton also from the Nemegt Formation, was named and described by Stephen L. Brusatte and colleagues in 2009. Its relationships to other tyrannosaurid genera were at first unclear, with some evidence supporting a hypothesis that Alioramus was closely related to the contemporary species Tarbosaurus bataar. However, the discovery of Qianzhousaurus indicates that it belongs to a distinct branch of tyrannosaurs, namely the tribe Alioramini.

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<i>Raptorex</i> Extinct genus of dinosaurs

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<i>Bistahieversor</i> Extinct genus of dinosaurs

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<i>Teratophoneus</i> Extinct genus of dinosaurs

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<i>Zhuchengtyrannus</i> Tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur genus from Late Cretaceous period

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<i>Lythronax</i> Genus of tyrannosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period

Lythronax is a genus of tyrannosaurid dinosaur that lived in North America around 81.9-81.5 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period. The only known specimen was discovered in Utah in the Wahweap Formation of the Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument in 2009, and it consists of a partial skull and skeleton. In 2013, it became the basis of the new genus and species Lythronax argestes; the generic name Lythronax means "gore king", and the specific name argestes originates from the Greek poet Homer's name for the wind from the southwest, in reference to the specimen's geographic provenance in North America.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alioramini</span> Extinct tribe of tyrannosaurid dinosaurs

Alioramini is a tribe of long-snouted tyrannosaurine tyrannosaurids from the Late Cretaceous epoch. It includes the tyrannosaurid genera Alioramus and Qianzhousaurus. Although tyrannosaurids are known from a variety of places around the globe, alioramins are currently restricted to Asia in mostly Maastrichtian strata. Many of the fossils attributed to Alioramini are not from fully developed individuals.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Timeline of tyrannosaur research</span>

This timeline of tyrannosaur research is a chronological listing of events in the history of paleontology focused on the tyrannosaurs, a group of predatory theropod dinosaurs that began as small, long-armed bird-like creatures with elaborate cranial ornamentation but achieved apex predator status during the Late Cretaceous as their arms shrank and body size expanded. Although formally trained scientists did not begin to study tyrannosaur fossils until the mid-19th century, these remains may have been discovered by Native Americans and interpreted through a mythological lens. The Montana Crow tradition about thunder birds with two claws on their feet may have been inspired by isolated tyrannosaurid forelimbs found locally. Other legends possibly inspired by tyrannosaur remains include Cheyenne stories about a mythical creature called the Ahke, and Delaware stories about smoking the bones of ancient monsters to have wishes granted.

<i>Dynamoterror</i> Extinct genus of dinosaurs

Dynamoterror is a monospecific genus of tyrannosaurid dinosaur from New Mexico that lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now the upper Allison Member of the Menefee Formation. The type and only species, Dynamoterror dynastes, is known from a subadult or adult individual about 9 metres long with an incomplete associated skeleton. It was named in 2018 by Andrew T. McDonald, Douglas G. Wolfe and Alton C. Dooley, Jr. Dynamoterror was closely related to Teratophoneus and Lythronax.

<i>Thanatotheristes</i> Daspletosaurin tyrannosaurid of the mid-Campanian

Thanatotheristes is a genus of tyrannosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Laramidia, approximately 80.1-79.5 Ma. Thanatotheristes contains only one species, T. degrootorum. Fossils of this taxon are found in the Foremost Formation of Alberta, Canada, coexisting with medium-sized ceratopsids like Xenoceratops foremostensis and small pachycephalosaurids like Colepiocephale lambei.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Daspletosaurini</span> Extinct clade of tyrannosaurid dinosaurs

Daspletosaurini is an extinct clade of tyrannosaurine dinosaurs that lived in Laramidia during the Late Cretaceous period. It consists of two genera: Daspletosaurus and Thanatotheristes. Four species have been described in the two genera, namely Daspletosaurus torosus, Daspletosaurus horneri, Daspletosaurus wilsoni, and Thanatotheristes degrootorum. At one point all of them were assigned as specimens of D. torosus, but several papers since 2017 have found them to represent distinct species. Some researchers found anagenesis in the group, whether contained in a daspletosaurin clade or paraphyletic in respect to the lineage of tyrannosaurines leading up to Tyrannosaurus, but a 2023 study refuted this theory on the basis of morphological and stratigraphical data.

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