Tyrannosaurus rex, Osborn, 1905

Rauhut, Oliver W. M., 2003, The interrelationships and evolution of basal theropod dinosaurs, Special papers in palaeontology 69, pp. 1-213 : 44

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.3382576
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3483028
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scientific name	Tyrannosaurus rex
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Gilmore (1946) described an almost complete skull of a small tyrannosaur as Albertosaurus lancensis . Bakker et al. (1988) recognized the differences of this skull to other material of Albertosaurus , and proposed the new generic name Nanotyrannus . However, Carr (1999) argued that the type of

Nanotyrannus View Cited Treatment

represents a juvenile individual of

Tyrannosaurus rex

. This view is followed here.