Describer

Parks, 1928

Time

Cretaceous Late Campanian

Classification

Saurischia Theropoda Tyrannosauria Tyrannosauridae Tyrannosaurinae Albertosaurini

Diet

Carnivore

Fossilsite

Red Deer River, west side of river, 2 1/2 miles above Bleriot Ferry, Edmonton Group, Member A. Alberta, Canada

Fall Under

Albertosaurus

Info

Skull

Albertosaurus = ?Deinodon (Leidy, 1856) Albertosaurus > Albertosaurus incrassatus (Cope, 1876 vide Huene, 1932) >> Laelaps incrassatus (Cope, 1876) ?Deinodon horridus ((Leidy, 1856) ? Laelaps falculus (Cope, 1876) ?Lealaps hazeniasus (Cope, 1876) ?Dryptosaurus kenabekides (Hay, 1899) Albertosaurus > A.sarcophagus (Osborn, 1905) >> A. arctunguis (Parks, 1928)

(ROM 00807 Holotype) Junior subjective of A.sarcophagus, as established by Dale Alan Russell in 1970; referred to the genus ?Deinodon as Deinodon arctunguis by Oskar Kuhn in 1939.