Describer

Gilmore, 1946

Time

Cretaceous Late Maastrichtian

Classification

Saurischia Theropoda Tyrannosauria Tyrannosauridae Tyrannosaurinae Albertosaurini

Diet

Carnivore

Fossilsite

Hell Creek Formation, Montana, US

Fall Under

Nanotyrannus

Length

5 meter

Info

Typespecies - Skull

Nanotyrannus (Bakker, Currie & Williams, 1988) > Nanotyrannus lancensis (Gilmore, 1946) = Albertosaurus (Clevelanotyrannus) lancensis (Gilmore, 1946 vide Paul, 1988) > Gorgosaurus lancensis (Gilmore, 1946) >> Clevelanotyrannus (Bakker, Williams & Currie vide Currie, 1987) Albertosaurus lancensis (Russell, 1970) Albertosaurus (Nanotyrannus) lancensis (Gilmore, 1946 vide Paul, 1988)

Complete skull 57,2 cm in length, skull with associated fragmentary postcranial remains. The true type of Nanotyrannus lancensis found in 1942 is an isolated skull which was not found in association with any other tyrannosaurid material. The skull was low with a long and narrow snout and has similar features to that of Tyrannosaurus rex. It also had a stereoscopic view

Considered a juvenile specimen of some known genus of tyrannosaur by some researchers