[dinosaur] Tyrannosaurus + Sinoceratops + dinosaur myths + more

Ben Creisler

Some recent items:

How We Elected T. rex to be Our Tyrant Lizard King

The true story behind our obsession with the last and largest of the tyrannosaurs

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-we-elected-t-rex-be-our-tyrant-lizard-king-180969419/

NOTE: This is a nice article but it mixes up some complicated details about the specimens.Â

"The first, less-complete skeleton went on to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh â where it can still be seen today â and the better skeleton was reassembled in the dinosaur halls of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, where it was known as AMNH 5027. "

See Osborn's original descriptions here:

http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/1464

http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/1473

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The AMNH 5027 specimen is actually a later specimen found in 1908 (NOT the holotype) but did incorporate some parts (femur) of the holotype as plaster casts when it was mounted in 1915.

The actual holotype material (or most of it at least)Â of T. rex was sold to the Carnegie Museum in 1941 (and thenÂ mounted there) and the original material for Dynamosaurus was sold to the Natural History Museum [then British Museum of Natural History] in London in 1960, also mounted

See various online blogs for more details:

AMNH 5027 at 100

https://extinctmonsters.net/2015/11/20/amnh-5027-at-100/

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Tyrannosaurus rex holotype (the "second" skeleton, found in 1902) now in Pittsburgh

https://www.npr.org/2011/09/14/140410442/bone-to-pick-first-t-rex-skeleton-complete-at-last

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Dynamosaurus (the "first" skeleton, found in 1900) now in London

http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2008/10/13/american-tyrant-in-london/

First Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton ever discovered to go on display at Natural History Museum

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/dinosaurs/10271920/First-Tyrannosaurus-Rex-skeleton-ever-discovered-to-go-on-display-at-Natural-History-Museum.html

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