Alioramus

Alioramus; Temporal range: Maastrichtian; ~
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	Skeleton mount at Texas A&M University-Commerce
Scientific classification
Unrecognized taxon (fix):	Alioramus
Type species
	†Alioramus remotus; Kurzanov 1976
Species
	†A. altai Brusatte et al. 2009; †A. remotus Kurzanov 1976;
Synonyms
	Qianzhousaurus? ; Lü et al., 2014;

Alioramus is a genus of tyrannosaurid dinosaur. It was about 20 feet long. It lived during the Upper Cretaceous period in what is now Mongolia.

The type species, A. remotus, is known from a partial skull and three foot bones. They were got from Mongolian sediments which were deposited in a humid floodplain about 70 million years ago.^[2] A second species, A. altai, known from a much more complete skeleton, was named and described in 2009.^[3] Its relationships to other tyrannosaurid genera are unclear. Some evidence suggests that Alioramus is closely related to the contemporary species Tarbosaurus bataar.

Wetter climate

The Maastrichtian stage in Mongolia had a wetter and more humid climate than the previous stages. Sediments show there were floodplains, large river channels and soil deposits, with periodic droughts.^[4]

This animal had many teeth, which were smaller than usual in the Tyrannosauridae, and a narrow, lower skull. It may have been a sub-adult (teenager), and must have eaten different prey than Tyrannosaurus. Since the general area was a riverine delta, the prey may have been fish.

Alioramus Media

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A. altai skeletal diagram, known portions in yellow
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Size of A. remotus compared with a Human
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Life restoration of A. remotus
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Restoration of A. altai
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Recreación de Gorgosaurus libratus
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Life reconstruction of Albertosaurus sarcophagus
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Qianzhousaurus sinensis by PaleoGeek
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Alioramus altai life restoration. Modified from originally being the similar Qianzhousaurus sinensis.
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Alioramus Life Restoration
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Teratophoneus curriei by PaleoGeek

References

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↑ Kurzanov, Sergei M. A new carnosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Nogon-Tsav, Mongolia". The Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition Transactions (in Russian) 3: 93–104.
↑ Brusatte, Stephen L. et al 2009. A long-snouted, multihorned tyrannosaurid from the late Cretaceous of Mongolia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. online preprint (41): 17261–6. [1]
↑ Osmólska, Halszka (1997). "Nemegt Formation". In Currie, Philip J.; Kevin Padian (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. San Diego: Academic Press. pp. 471–472. ISBN 978-0-12-226810-6.

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[2] Kurzanov, Sergei M. A new carnosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Nogon-Tsav, Mongolia". The Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition Transactions (in Russian) 3: 93–104.

[3] Brusatte, Stephen L. et al 2009. A long-snouted, multihorned tyrannosaurid from the late Cretaceous of Mongolia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. online preprint (41): 17261–6. [1]

[osmolska1997-4] Osmólska, Halszka (1997). "Nemegt Formation". In Currie, Philip J.; Kevin Padian (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. San Diego: Academic Press. pp. 471–472. ISBN 978-0-12-226810-6.

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