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- Type of dinosaur:
- large theropod
- Length:
- 8.6m
- Diet:
- carnivorous
- When it lived:
- Late Cretaceous, 80-73 million years ago
- Found in:
- Canada,
- USA
Gorgosaurus is known from at least 12 complete or almost complete skulls and several partial skeletons.
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy:
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Theropoda, Tyrannosauroidea, Tyrannosauridae, Albertosaurinae
- Named by:
- Lamb (1914)
- Type species:
- libratus