Daspletosaurus

Late Cretaceous (80-74 Ma)CarnivoreTheropoda

PeriodLate Cretaceous (80-74 Ma)

DietCarnivore

Length9 m

Weight2,500 kg

LocationAlberta, Canada, Montana, USA

ClassificationTheropoda

About Daspletosaurus

A heavily built tyrannosaurid that preceded T. rex and may lie near its ancestry. Skulls carry healed and fatal bite marks from other Daspletosaurus, evidence of face biting battles. Found in bonebeds alongside horned dinosaurs it likely hunted. More robust than its contemporary Gorgosaurus.

Size

9 m longArgentinosaurus: 35 m

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