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Eodromaeus murphi is a small, lightly built dinosaur from the Late Triassic Ischigualasto Formation of northwestern Argentina. Known from a substantially complete skeleton, it had sharp teeth, grasping forelimbs, and long hind limbs suited to bipedal movement. It was described as an early theropod,...
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Early theropod candidate from Ischigualasto; useful for dinosaur origins but less iconic than Herrerasaurus.
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Lythronax argestes is a tyrannosaurid theropod known from fossils recovered from the Wahweap Formation of southern Utah, United States. Described in 2013, it lived during the Late Cretaceous about 80 million years ago and is among the oldest known tyrannosaurines. Its relatively broad, deep skull an...
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Old tyrannosaurine with key skull anatomy; significant but less complete than better-known relatives.
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