What type of creature is an Albertosaurus?
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What type of creature is an Albertosaurus?
Albertosaurus is a genus of large, meat-eating dinosaur (theropod). It lived between 73.1 and 69.6 million years ago. Skeletal remains of Albertosaurus have only been found in southcentral Alberta, in the Horseshoe Canyon Formation (see Badlands).
What did the Albertosaurus evolve from?
Albertosaurus, (genus Albertosaurus), usually subsumes Gorgosaurus, large carnivorous dinosaurs of the Late Cretaceous Period (99.6 million to 65.5 million years ago) found as fossils in North America and eastern Asia. Albertosaurs are an early subgroup of tyrannosaurs, which appear to have evolved from them.
What is the Albertosaurus scientific name?
AlbertosaurusAlbertosaurus / Scientific name
What lived with Albertosaurus?
A small theropod called Albertonykus was found in the Dry Island bonebed among Albertosaurus. The marsupial Didelphodon lived among the fauna, as did the rodent-like multituberculates.
What were Albertosaurus predators?
As is common for many predators, A. libratus probably enjoyed a very keen sense of smell as well as excellent vision. Albertosaurus probably hunted hadrosaurs, the duck-billed dinosaurs, among other prey. Scientists believe that these dinosaurs may have hunted in packs.
What was the Albertosaurus prey?
Edmontosaurus
CorythosaurusLambeosaurus
Albertosaurus/Eats
What is the difference between Albertosaurus and Tyrannosaurus?
The snout of Albertosaurus is more elongated and narrower than in Tyrannosaurus and the maxillary teeth of Tyranno- saurus are larger relative to the skull than those of Alberto- saurus, so that Tyrannosaurus has been referred to as a ”saber-toothed dinosaur” (Molnar and Farlow 1990).
What is the difference between Albertosaurus and T Rex?
Less Than Half the Size of Tyrannosaurus Rex A full-grown albertosaurus measured about 30 feet from head to tail and weighed about two tons, as opposed to the Tyrannosaurus rex that measured in at over 40 feet long and weighed seven or eight tons.
How was the Albertosaurus found?
In 1884, Geological Survey of Canada geologist Joseph Tyrrell discovered an Albertosaurus skull in the badlands along the Red Deer River. This was the first time the world had seen Albertosaurus. It was a chance find as Tyrrell was exploring the river valley cliffs for coal.