Basic info Taxonomic history Classification Included Taxa
Morphology Ecology and taphonomy External Literature Search Age range and collections

Tyrannosauripus pillmorei

Reptilia - Tyrannosauridae

Taxonomy
Tyrannosauripus pillmorei was named by Lockley and Hunt (1994). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is CU-MWC 225.1, a footprint, and it is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Philmont Ranch tracksite, North Ponil Canyon, which is in a Maastrichtian terrestrial sandstone in the Raton Formation of New Mexico.

It was corrected as Tyrannosauripus pilmorei by Cobos et al. (2014) and Marty et al. (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1994Tyrannosauripus pillmorei Lockley and Hunt p. 215
2000Tyrannosauripus pillmorei Lockley p. 221
2000Tyrannosauripus pillmorei Lockley et al. p. 14
2003Tyrannosauripus pillmorei Currie et al. p. 5
2008Tyrannosauripus pillmorei Manning et al. p. 645
2009Tyrannosauripus pilmorei Boutakiout et al. p. 41
2010Tyrannosauripus pillmorei Mateus and Milàn p. 250
2012Tyrannosauripus pilmorei Jiménez Hernández et al. p. 35
2014Tyrannosauripus pilmorei Cobos et al. p. 36
2014Tyrannosauripus pillmorei McCrea et al. p. 5
2014Tyrannosauripus pillmorei Xing et al. p. 309
2018Tyrannosauripus pilmorei Marty et al. p. 944
2018Tyrannosauripus pillmorei Xing et al. p. 1750
2019Tyrannosauripus pillmorei Suárez Riglos et al. p. 72
2019Tyrannosauripus pilmorei Xing et al. p. 1137
2021Tyrannosauripus pilmorei Meyer et al. p. 553

Is something missing? Join the Paleobiology Database and enter the data

RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
RankNameAuthor
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Theropoda()
Neotheropoda
AverostraPaul 2002
Tetanurae
Coelurosauria()
superfamilyTyrannosauroidea
familyTyrannosauridae
Tyrannosauripodidae
genusTyrannosauripus
speciespillmorei

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Tyrannosauripus pillmorei Lockley and Hunt 1994
show all | hide all
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yeso
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: solitaryo
Environment: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: ground dwellingo
Diet: carnivoresubo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2009-01-03 20:39:15
Modified: 2009-01-03 22:39:15
Source: subo = suborder, o = order
References: Marsh 1875, Benton 1983

Age range: Maastrichtian or 72.10000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Maastrichtian72.1 - 66.0USA (New Mexico) Tyrannosauripus pillmorei (type locality: 53155)