Very HardLythronax
Lythronax argestes
LY-throh-naks· “gore king”
🕰️ Cretaceous🥩 carnivore🦴 Tyrannosauridae
8 m
Length
2.5 m
Height
2.5 t
Weight
One of the oldest known tyrannosaurs — a stocky predator with a short, wide skull and forward-facing eyes that gave it excellent 3-D vision.
When
Late Cretaceous, ~80 million years ago
Found in
United States
Discovered
Mark Loewen, 2013
Did you know?
- It is one of the earliest known tyrannosaurs, about 80 million years old.
- Its name means 'gore king'.
- Its wide skull gave it overlapping, binocular vision like T. rex.
Artwork: TotalDino, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.