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NANOTYRANNUS
(nah-no-ty-ran-nus)
meaning: "Dwarf tyrant"
Nanotyrannus
Named By: Robert T. Bakker, Phil Currie & Michael Williams in 1988
Time Period: Late Cretaceous, 68.5 Ma
Location: North America
Size: Approximately 5.2 meters long for holotype
Diet: Carnivore
Fossil(s): Single skull
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Theropoda | Tyrannosauridae |
Also known as: | Gorgosaurus lancensis | Deinodon lancensis | Aublysodon lancensis | Albertosaurus lancensis |
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Nanotyrannus ("dwarf tyrant") is a potentially dubious genus of tyrannosaurid dinosaur. It is known only from two specimens (possibly three), which are potentially juvenile specimens of the contemporary genus Tyrannosaurus rex.

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