Species
Valid Extinct

Gorgosaurus libratus

(Lambe 1914)

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
15
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
Theropoda Unranked clade
Neotheropoda Unranked clade
Averostra Unranked clade
Tetanurae Unranked clade
Coelurosauria Unranked clade
Tyrannosauroidea Superfamily
Tyrannosauridae Family
Albertosaurinae Subfamily
Gorgosaurus Genus
Gorgosaurus libratus Species
Fossil sites 15 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇦 Canada
13
🇺🇸 United States
2
Geological formations
Oldman
1
Temporal distribution
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
15
Synonyms (5)
Dryptosaurus kenabekides subjective synonym of Gorgosaurus libratus
Gorgosaurus sternbergi subjective synonym of Gorgosaurus libratus
Laelaps falculus subjective synonym of Gorgosaurus libratus
Laelaps hazenianus subjective synonym of Gorgosaurus libratus
Laelaps incrassatus subjective synonym of Gorgosaurus libratus
Bibliography
Original description
L. M. Lambe. 1914. On a new genus and species of carnivorous dinosaur from the Belly River Formation of Alberta, with a description of the skull of Stephanosaurus marginatus from the same horizon. The Ottawa Naturalist 28:13-20
Bibliography (9)
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P. J. Currie and E. B. Koppelhus. 2015. The significance of the theropod collections of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology to our understanding of Late Cretaceous theropod diversity. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 52(8):620-629 DOI ↗
M. J. Ryan. 1994. Taphonomy of a Centrosaurus (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) bone bed from the Dinosaur Park Formation (upper Campanian), Alberta, Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14(3, suppl.):44A
J. Danis. 1986. Quarries of Dinosaur Provincial Park. In B. G. Naylor (ed.), Field Trip Guidebook to Dinosaur Provincial Park, 2 June 1986. Dinosaur Systematics Symposium, Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Drumheller, Alberta
L. S. Russell. 1966. Dinosaur hunting in western Canada. Royal Ontario Museum, Life Sciences Contribution 70:1-37 DOI ↗
W. D. Matthew and B. Brown. 1922. The family Deinodontidae, with notice of a new genus from the Cretaceous of Alberta. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 46(6):367-385
L. M. Lambe. 1914. On a new genus and species of carnivorous dinosaur from the Belly River Formation of Alberta, with a description of the skull of Stephanosaurus marginatus from the same horizon. The Ottawa Naturalist 28:13-20
O. P. Hay. 1899. On the nomenclature of certain American fossil vertebrates. The American Geologist 24:345-349 DOI ↗
E. D. Cope. 1876. Descriptions of some vertebrate remains from the Fort Union Beds of Montana. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 28:248-261