059--GORGOSAURUS LIBRATUS

project: DINOSAURIA
specimen 059

GORGOSAURUS LIBRATUS
"Balanced Fierce Lizard"
Lambe, 1914
Length: 9m (30ft)
Weight: 2.4 tonnes (2.6 tons)
Location: Alberta, Canada
Era: Campanian age, upper Cretaceous (75 million years ago)

Classification:
Dinosauria
Saurischia
Theropoda
Tetanurae
Avetheropoda
Coelurosauria
Tyrannosauroidea
Tyrannosauridae
Albertosaurinae

Notes:
Gorgosaurus is the best represented Tyrannosaurid in the fossil record, and the second best represented large theropod, second only to the unbeatably ubiquitous Allosaurus.

Synonyms:
Albertosaurus libratus Lambe, 1914
Deinodon libratus Lambe, 1914
Gorgosaurus sternbergi Matthew & Brown, 1923
Deinodon sternbergi Matthew & Brown, 1923
Albertosaurus sternbergi Matthew & Brown, 1923