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†subfamily Tyrannosaurinae Matthew and Brown 1922 (tyrannosaurine)

Reptilia - Dinosauria - Tyrannosauridae

Synonyms: Aublysodontinae Nopcsa 1928, Shanshanosaurinae Olshevsky 1995

Full reference: W. D. Matthew and B. Brown. 1922. The family Deinodontidae, with notice of a new genus from the Cretaceous of Alberta. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 46(6):367-385

Parent taxon: Tyrannosauridae according to T. D. Carr et al. 2011

Sister taxa: Albertosaurinae, Albertosaurus, Sinotyrannus, Tyrannosauripus, Yezosaurus

Subtaxa: Alioramus, Daspletosaurus, Nanotyrannus, Tarbosaurini, Tarbosaurus, Teratophoneus, Tyrannosaurini, Tyrannosaurus, Zhuchengtyrannus

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Type: Tyrannosaurus

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore