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Megaraptor skull found, suggests tyrannosaur affinities

Adam Khor · 2019-07-18 21:57:10

Apparently the skull of a young Megaraptor has been found and it appears to be a tyrannosauroid, not an allosauroid as previously believed. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667114000755 Paleontologist Thomas Holtz published this via Twitter- skull (above) looks a lot like primitive tyrannosauroids such…

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18-07-2019 10:57pm

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Adam Khor

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Apparently the skull of a young Megaraptor has been found and it appears to be a tyrannosauroid, not an allosauroid as previously believed.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667114000755

Paleontologist Thomas Holtz published this via Twitter- skull (above) looks a lot like primitive tyrannosauroids such as Dilong (below):

Wonder what an adult Megaraptor looked like, tho...

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