Lythronax - Facts and Figures

Lythronax - Facts and Figures Name Lythronax (Greek for gore lord); articulated LITH-roe-nax Environment Forests of North America Authentic Period Late Cretaceous (80 million years back) Size and Weight Around 24 feet in length and 2-3 tons Diet Meat Recognizing Characteristics Moderate size; long skull; foreshortened arms About Lythronax In spite of what you may have perused in the press, the recently reported Lythronax (gore lord) isnt the most seasoned tyrannosaur in the fossil record; that respect goes to somewhat little Asian genera like Guanlong that lived countless years sooner. Lythronax does, notwithstanding, speak to a critical missing connection in tyrannosaur advancement, since its bones were uncovered from a district of Utah that compares toward the southern part of the island of Laramidia, which rode North Americas shallow Western Interior Sea during the late Cretaceous time frame. (The northern piece of Laramidia, on the other hand, compares to the cutting edge conditions of Montana, Wyoming, and North and South Dakota, just as parts of Canada.) What the revelation of Lythronax infers is that the transformative split prompting tyrannosaurid tyrannosaurs like T. Rex (to which this dinosaur was firmly related, and which showed up on the scene more than 10 million years after the fact) happened two or three million years sooner than was once accepted. Long story short: Lythronax was firmly identified with other tyrannosaurid tyrannosaurs of southern Laramidia (most eminently Teratophoneus and Bistahieversor, notwithstanding T. Rex), which currently seem to have developed independently from their neighbors in the northmeaning there might be a lot a larger number of tyrannosaurs prowling in the fossil record than recently accepted.