Albertosaurus sarcophagus

Albertosaurus sarcophagus
Etymology	Alberta's (A Province in Canada) Flesh-eating lizard
Size	26 feet long, 8/9 feet tall
Weight	2.5 short tons
Diet	Carnivorous: Mostly Hadrosaurs
Habitat	Forest
Fossil Range	75-67.5 million years ago: Living for approximately seven and a half million years
Location	North America
Did You Know...	Another albertosaurine called "Gorgosaurus" may be a synonym of this genus but a different species?

Albertosaurus sarcophagus is a genus of albertosaurine tyrannosaurid theropod native to North America in the Middle Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous epoch. It is known from a few scrappy remains and is a bit unknown. It was built like all theropods, it was bipedal (walking on two legs [from bi, meaning two and pedal, meaning locomotion]), had three long toes on its feet and had sharp teeth for eating meat (for the exception of therizinosaurians, oviraptorosaurs, ornithomimosaurs, some birds, some ceratosaurs and possibly some troodontids). It had a long tail to keep its balance and two short arms with three fingers (Tyrannosaurids are characterized by having two fingers but a recent discovery found a small third finger).

Classification and History of Discoveries

Taxonomy

Superorder: Dinosauria

Order: Saurischia

Suborder: Theropoda

Unranked: Coelurosauria/Tyrannoraptora

Superfamily: Tyrannosauroidea

Family: Tyrannosauridae

Subfamily: Albertosaurinae

Tribe: Albertosaurini

Genus: Albertosaurus

Species: Albertosaurus sarcophagus

Albertosaurus sarcophagus fits into the superorder Dinosauria obviously, skipping down, T. rex fits in the unranked suborder Coelurosauria, the superfamily Tyrannosauroidea, the family Tyrannosauridae, the subfamily Albertosaurinae, the tribe Albertosaurini and the genus Albertosaurus.

Gallery of Albertosaurus sarcophagus