Albertosaurinae
Extinct subfamily of dinosaurs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Albertosaurines, or dinosaurs of the subfamily Albertosaurinae, lived in the Late Cretaceous of United States and Canada. The subfamily was first used by Philip J. Currie, Jørn H. Hurum, and Karol Sabath as a group of tyrannosaurid dinosaurs. It was originally defined as "(Albertosaurus + Gorgosaurus)", including only the two genera. The group is the sister clade to Tyrannosaurinae. In 2007, it was found that the group also contained Maleevosaurus, often synonymized with Tarbosaurus. However, this classification has not been accepted and Maleevosaurus is still considered a juvenile Tarbosaurus or Tyrannosaurus.
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Albertosaurines | |
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Albertosaurus skull cast | |
Gorgosaurus skull | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Superfamily: | †Tyrannosauroidea |
Clade: | †Pantyrannosauria |
Clade: | †Eutyrannosauria |
Family: | †Tyrannosauridae |
Subfamily: | †Albertosaurinae Currie et al., 2003 |
Type species | |
†Albertosaurus sarcophagus | |
Genera[1][2][3] | |
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