Albertosaurinae

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.

Albertosaurinae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TyrannosauridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
Life habit
ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda

Time the record covers

At most 20 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 53 of 53 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 53 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 2 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 2 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences86.2 Mya65.5 Mya

53 occurrences of Albertosaurinae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

53 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

13 formations

Horseshoe Canyon — 51.82°N, 112.98°WHorseshoe Canyon — 51.54°N, 112.82°WHorseshoe Canyon — 51.44°N, 112.70°WHorseshoe Canyon — 51.93°N, 112.93°WHorseshoe Canyon — 52.00°N, 112.88°WHorseshoe Canyon — 51.55°N, 112.87°WHorseshoe Canyon — 53.45°N, 113.55°WHorseshoe Canyon — 51.46°N, 112.67°WHorseshoe Canyon — 51.74°N, 112.97°WHorseshoe Canyon — 53.26°N, 113.81°WHorseshoe Canyon — 51.65°N, 112.90°WHorseshoe Canyon — 51.55°N, 112.88°WDinosaur Park — 50.74°N, 111.53°WDinosaur Park — 50.72°N, 111.56°WDinosaur Park — 50.79°N, 111.60°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.48°WDinosaur Park — 50.41°N, 110.29°WDinosaur Park — 50.68°N, 108.09°WDinosaur Park — 50.60°N, 111.62°WJudith River — 48.93°N, 110.58°WJudith River — 47.77°N, 108.95°WJudith River — 47.72°N, 109.64°WOldman — 50.69°N, 111.62°WJudith River — 49.10°N, 109.50°WJudith River — 50.50°N, 107.83°WHell Creek — 45.06°N, 103.45°WHell Creek — 45.50°N, 103.10°WCorral de Enmedio — 31.08°N, 109.61°WCorral de Enmedio — 31.14°N, 109.81°WScollard — 51.80°N, 112.98°WLance — 43.30°N, 104.37°WFruitland — 36.29°N, 108.23°WKirtland — 36.27°N, 108.17°WWapiti — 55.06°N, 119.11°WSedan — 45.98°N, 110.92°W

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The named rock units Albertosaurinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Albertosaurinae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Albertosaurinae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

259 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Albertosaurinae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

38 references

Each of the 53 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 26 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Albertosaurinae

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FunkMonk
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTyrannosauridae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Currie et al. 2003