Nanotyrannus and Tyrannosaurus coexisted at the close of the Cretaceous

2025/10/30 by Lindsay E. Zanno, James G. Napoli · 20 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Autapomorphy #Body plan #Cretaceous #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Holotype #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology #Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils #Taxon #Tetrapod (structure) #Theropoda #Vertebrate

paper · doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09801-6

published in Nature 648(8093), 357-367 (Nature Portfolio)

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