TYRANNOSAURUS REX

 

Name:	Meaning - Tyrannosaurus Rex means ‘ Tyrant Lizard King’ Described By -Osborn, 1905
Diet:	Carnivorous: By virtue of the name it was given - 'King' of the Tyrant Lizards indicates the shear size and capability of this awesome creature. This is the creature that nightmares are made from. T-Rex was a massive meat eating dinosaur of the highest magnitude ever to have walked this planet.
Size:	Length - 12.5 m long (40 feet) Height : 6 m (20 feet) Weight - 7 tons
Geological Age:	Late Cretaceous (85 – 65 Millions years ago) - Masstrichtian
Locomotion:	T-Rex was a bipedal predator, it had long legs and small arms.
Bones:	Holotype named from a skeleton lacking some of the neck vertebrae, forelimbs and most of the tail..
Classification:	Kingdom Animalia (animals) Phylum Chordata (having a hollow nerve chord ending in a brain) Class Archosauria (diapsids socket-set teeth, etc.) Order Saurischia - lizard-hipped dinosaurs Suborder Theropoda - bipedal carnivores Tetanurae - advanced theropods with three fingers Super Family Coelurosauria Family Tyrannosauria Genus Tyrannosauroidea Species Tyrannosaurus Rex (Osbourn, 1905)
Dino Info:	The most awe inspiring dinosaur of them all and it's remains come at a price. The most complete Tyrannosaurus skeleton to be found and nicknamed 'Sue' was sold for over $7,000,000 by Sotherby's by corporate benefactors on behalf of the Chicargo museum. Although originally diagnosed as female, Sue's sex is uncertain. Tyrant Dung: From Asia (Saskatchewan) a record breaking piece of dung from a carnivore was found - measuring an awesome 43 cm long and a volume capacity of 2.4L! The contents contained well crushed bone fragments of it's last meal - a subadult ornithischian. Although T-Rex has been recently de-throwned from top predator by Carcharodontosaurus saharicus & Gigantosaurus, it was still the top predator at the end of the Cretaceous when the demise of the dinosaurs occurred. The finding of Sue may mean bigger T-Rex's are out there and there may just be a skeleton out there waiting that will replace T-Rex on the throne of 'King of the Dinosaurs' once more.
Location:	Western North America (and also Mongolia, although this species is recently placed under the genus - Tarbosaurus): when the area was tropical with open forests, lakes and swamps and having a hot, humid climate.
Model Info:	Looking for something Dinosaurian for young children for a present? Well here you go... this is a huge, soft bendable vinyl model (so it won't scratch, or matter if it gets wet). Its a cute T-Rex to play with. It measures aprox. 32 cm long and standing 29 cm high.  The perfect first  dinosaur playmate!