The Great Dinosaur Debate by Robert T. Bakker

2), Larson retains Nanotyrannus as a distinct taxon (as do some other contributions in the volume).

Referring to the fact that 'there is so much evidence separating Nanotyrannus from T. Here, we receive the first indication that not everyone involved in tyrant dinosaur research agrees on the taxonomy of the population of animals generally referred to as T. This is an interesting catalogue, providing and illustrating a great deal of obscure and even never-before-published information. The volume starts with Neal Larson's review of all reported T. Including 21 contributions from 30 authors, this book is the result.

In celebration of 100 years of knowledge of the world's most famous dinosaur, the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research (Hill City, South Dakota) held '100 Years of Tyrannosaurus rex: A Symposium' in June 2005. rex might really be regarded, then, as a 'model dinosaur', and its familiarity and popularity might instead be argued to be coincidental, the result of its relatively early discovery (it was named in 1905) and of its status as one of the world's largest predatory dinosaur. It has also - in the form of bite marks, coprolites and soft tissue traces (or alleged soft tissue traces) - left us more evidence of its behaviour than many other Mesozoic dinosaurs. rex really is one of the best known dinosaurs, represented by multiple individuals that are often near-complete and well preserved.

That might be partly true but, in fact, T. It might be easy to assume that this intense focus has been driven by the fame and glory associated with working on this dinosaur. Few dinosaurs are as well studied as the Upper Cretaceous tyrannosaurid theropod Tyrannosaurus rex.

The Great Dinosaur Debate by Robert T. Bakker