A New Tyrannosaur Revealed!

[suspsy]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/12193580/New-discovery-explains-how-T.-rex-became-the-giants-of-the-dinosaur-world.html

Timurlengia! Somebody made a toy of it!

[DinoLord]

Neat find; thanks for sharing. It's great to see new discoveries from previously unexplored (in a paleontological sense) parts of the world. If well-sampled formations like Hell Creek continue to produce exciting new finds, one can only imagine what lies in store in fresh territories...

P.S. It's great to see that Todd Marshall is still producing new works; I had feared he had retired. He's always been one of my favorite paleoartists, and it's nice to see him do some feathered depictions.

[Takama]

Is it said if this is an Adult species and not another Nanotyrannus issue in the making?

[Halichoeres]

Is it said if this is an Adult species and not another Nanotyrannus issue in the making?

If I'm not mistaken, the paper isn't out yet, so I don't know about the bone sutures and so on, but given the age of the formation, it's really about the size we'd expect a tyrannosaur to have been. This is like 25 million years before Hell Creek.

[amargasaurus cazaui]

So for those of us who lack specialization in theropods in general...what is the proper term or way to state the sentence......a new tyrannosaurus found, new Tyrannosaur found , or new Tyrannosaurid.......wouldnt the last version be most accurate or in what case do you use which....?Oh and heres a present for whoever answers my question !!

https://app.box.com/s/45kxw3f400q9vrnuxocf1zc0bsib8y3l

http://www.mediafire.com/download/4a3sne116y5awqc/Tyrannosaurids+%28Dinosauria%29+of+Asia+and+North+America.pdf

[Halichoeres]

I guess the most precise way to say it would be "tyrannosauroid." I don't think "tyrannosaur" has an explicit cladistic definition, so in my own opinion it's fine for colloquial use  (others' mileage may vary).

[amargasaurus cazaui]

So would you also say psittacosauroid, or psittacosaurid?



Enjoy the paper by the way

[suspsy]

Timurlengia is a tyrannosauroid like Yutyrannus and Dilong as opposed to a tyrannosaurid like T. rex and Tarbosaurus, but they all make up the tyrannosaur family.

[Patrx]

So would you also say psittacosauroid, or psittacosaurid?

I think in that case, Psittacosauridae is within Ceratopsia directly, so all species of Psittacosaurus are ceratopsian psittacosaurids. Or perhaps psittacosaurid ceratopsians.

[ChubbyTaco]

Hello friends!A new study about how tyrannosaurs got big have been posted in everything dinosaur blog.Here is the link of it :-
http://blog.everythingdinosaur.co.uk/blog/_archives/2016/03/15/fossil-study-suggests-how-tyrannosaurs-got-big.html


Here is a illustration of timurlengia by Todd Marshall

[Halichoeres]

So would you also say psittacosauroid, or psittacosaurid?



Enjoy the paper by the way

It depends on how inclusive you want to be. "Psittacosaurid" refers to any member of the family Psittacosauridae, but at least some people recognize a more-inclusive superfamily known as Psittacosauroidea, so "psittacosauroid" would refer to anything in that superfamily, including the psittacosaurids. I don't really know a ton about that part of the tree, so I can't say what taxa would be psittacosauroids but not psittacosaurids. I'm just applying standard conventions.

And thanks for the paper