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Daspletosaurus
Taxonomy
Daspletosaurus was named by Russell (1970).
It was synonymized subjectively with Tyrannosaurus by Paul (1988); it was synonymized subjectively with Gorgosaurus by Carr (1995).
It was assigned to Carnosauria by Gauthier (1986); to Tyrannosauridae by Russell (1970), Kurzanov (1976), Lawson (1976), Molnar (1978), Molnar (1980), Molnar (1980), Barsbold (1983), Dodson (1983), Thulborn (1984), Russell (1984), Clemens (1986), Currie (1987), Carroll (1988), Kurzanov (1989), Molnar et al. (1990), Molnar (1991), Currie (1992), Carpenter (1992), Padian (1997), Eberth (1997), Sereno (1998), Holtz (1998), Carr (1999), Currie (2000), Eberth et al. (2001), Currie et al. (2003), Rauhut (2003), Urban and Lamanna (2006), Smith (2007), Longrich (2008), Li et al. (2009), Paulina Carabajal and Currie (2012), Dalman (2013) and Lü et al. (2014); to Tyrannosaurinae by Holtz (1997), Currie (2000), Holtz (2001), Currie (2003), Currie et al. (2003), Holtz (2004), Erickson et al. (2004), Currie et al. (2005), Carr et al. (2005), Carr et al. (2011), Carr et al. (2017) and Dalman et al. (2018); and to Daspletosaurini by Voris et al. (2020) and Yun (2020).
It was synonymized subjectively with Tyrannosaurus by Paul (1988); it was synonymized subjectively with Gorgosaurus by Carr (1995).
It was assigned to Carnosauria by Gauthier (1986); to Tyrannosauridae by Russell (1970), Kurzanov (1976), Lawson (1976), Molnar (1978), Molnar (1980), Molnar (1980), Barsbold (1983), Dodson (1983), Thulborn (1984), Russell (1984), Clemens (1986), Currie (1987), Carroll (1988), Kurzanov (1989), Molnar et al. (1990), Molnar (1991), Currie (1992), Carpenter (1992), Padian (1997), Eberth (1997), Sereno (1998), Holtz (1998), Carr (1999), Currie (2000), Eberth et al. (2001), Currie et al. (2003), Rauhut (2003), Urban and Lamanna (2006), Smith (2007), Longrich (2008), Li et al. (2009), Paulina Carabajal and Currie (2012), Dalman (2013) and Lü et al. (2014); to Tyrannosaurinae by Holtz (1997), Currie (2000), Holtz (2001), Currie (2003), Currie et al. (2003), Holtz (2004), Erickson et al. (2004), Currie et al. (2005), Carr et al. (2005), Carr et al. (2011), Carr et al. (2017) and Dalman et al. (2018); and to Daspletosaurini by Voris et al. (2020) and Yun (2020).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1970 | Daspletosaurus Russell pp. 13-14 |
| 1976 | Daspletosaurus Kurzanov |
| 1976 | Daspletosaurus Lawson p. 160 |
| 1978 | Daspletosaurus Molnar p. 75 |
| 1980 | Daspletosaurus Molnar p. 102 |
| 1983 | Daspletosaurus Barsbold p. 95 |
| 1983 | Daspletosaurus Dodson p. 95 |
| 1984 | Daspletosaurus Russell p. 25 |
| 1984 | Daspletosaurus Thulborn p. 133 |
| 1986 | Daspletosaurus Clemens p. 79 |
| 1986 | Daspletosaurus Gauthier p. 9 |
| 1987 | Daspletosaurus Currie p. 54 |
| 1988 | Daspletosaurus Carroll |
| 1989 | Daspletosaurus Kurzanov p. 5 |
| 1990 | Daspletosaurus Molnar et al. p. 190 |
| 1991 | Daspletosaurus Molnar p. 166 |
| 1992 | Daspletosaurus Carpenter pp. 260-1 |
| 1992 | Daspletosaurus Currie p. 242 |
| 1997 | Daspletosaurus Eberth p. 201 |
| 1997 | Daspletosaurus Holtz, Jr. p. 53A |
| 1997 | Daspletosaurus Padian p. 532 |
| 1998 | Daspletosaurus Holtz, Jr. p. 41 |
| 1998 | Daspletosaurus Sereno p. 65 |
| 1999 | Daspletosaurus Carr pp. 498-499 |
| 2000 | Daspletosaurus Currie p. 273 |
| 2001 | Daspletosaurus Eberth et al. p. 56 |
| 2001 | Daspletosaurus Holtz, Jr. p. 70 fig. 7.2 |
| 2003 | Daspletosaurus Currie p. 663 |
| 2003 | Daspletosaurus Currie et al. p. 6 |
| 2003 | Daspletosaurus Currie et al. p. 230 fig. 2 |
| 2003 | Daspletosaurus Rauhut p. 43 |
| 2004 | Daspletosaurus Erickson et al. p. 773 |
| 2004 | Daspletosaurus Holtz, Jr. p. 112 |
| 2005 | Daspletosaurus Carr et al. p. 140 fig. 21 |
| 2005 | Daspletosaurus Currie et al. pp. 318-319 |
| 2006 | Daspletosaurus Urban and Lamanna p. 234 |
| 2007 | Daspletosaurus Smith p. 104 |
| 2008 | Daspletosaurus Longrich p. 994 |
| 2009 | Daspletosaurus Li et al. |
| 2011 | Daspletosaurus Carr et al. |
| 2012 | Daspletosaurus Paulina Carabajal and Currie p. 95 |
| 2013 | Daspletosaurus Dalman p. 241 |
| 2014 | Daspletosaurus Lü et al. |
| 2017 | Daspletosaurus Carr et al. p. 3 |
| 2018 | Daspletosaurus Dalman et al. p. 125 |
| 2020 | Daspletosaurus Voris et al. |
| 2020 | Daspletosaurus Yun p. 3 |
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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.
G. †Daspletosaurus Russell 1970
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†Daspletosaurus horneri Carr et al. 2017
†Daspletosaurus torosus Russell 1970
†Daspletosaurus wilsoni Warshaw and Fowler 2022
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available