Also known as Huxley T. rex
Where: Alberta, Canada (51.9° N, 113.2° W: paleocoordinates 59.9° N, 84.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Scollard Formation (Edmonton Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• upper part of formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, ferruginous, red sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. M. Sternberg, W. Langston in 1946, 1960, 1981; reposited in the NMC, TMP
• single phalanx collected by Langston in 1960 from an eroded and shattered skeleton weathering out of a cliff, first observed by Sternberg in 1946. The same specimen was later collected (1981) by the RTMP.
Primary reference: D. A. Russell. 1970. Tyrannosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of western Canada. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Publications in Paleontology 1:1-34 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 11918: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.09.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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cf. Tyrannosaurus rex Osborn 1905 tyrant lizard king NMC 9950, cervical plus remainder of specimen (TMP 1981.012.0001) ("Huxley T. rex")
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