Prior to the discovery of Yutyrannus, Beipiaosaurus was the largest known animal with direct evidence of feathers. Estimated at 2.2 meters in length and less than 30 kilograms, it’s roughly 4 times shorter and 130 times lighter than the fuzzy tyrannosauroid.

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🦖 Daily Dino 🦖; Yutyrannus huali

It had to be 😂 From Early Cretaceous Yixian formation of China, this tyrannosauroid is the largest known dinosaur with direct evidence of feathering. At around 9 meters long, it's also quite large for an early tyrannosaur

Art by

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🦖 Daily Dino 🦖; Santanaraptor placidus

A small theropod from Early Cretaceous Brasil with debated classification; some suggest it's South America's first known tyrannosauroid, others consider it a noasaurid.
It preserves scale impressions on the foot

Credit to the artist

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Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the dilong!
a small tyrannosauroid that lived in china!
made by me

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Tyrannosauroids might just contain the biggest size range of any theropod superfamily, with the smallest known members being over 2000 times smaller than the largest. Skeletal by

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South Korean Tyrannosauroid

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Evening folks. Last drawing for this year; kicking it off with Guanlong; a small Proceratosaurid theropod. Proceratosaurids like Guanlong were early Tyrannosauroids and generally seem to have had display crests adorning their skulls.

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Just in time for Christmas, I've posted a couple of new tyrannosauroid sketches/quick paintings/whatevers at Here's the Jurassic Tanycolagreus and Cretaceous Eotyrannus - check them out in high res at https://t.co/6J91ytwTCD.

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Dino Fact!

Proceratosaurus (Before Ceratosaurus) is a tyrannosauroid from Middle Jurassic England! Its name refers to how it was once thought to be an ancestor of Ceratosaurus, due to the partial remains of its nasal crest resembling the- (1/2)

Art by Gabriel N. U!

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-based on the known fossils, it's likely a basal coelurosaur of some kind, possibly an early tyrannosauroid! If so, it probably had many of the traits basal tyrannosauroids typically had, such as long arms with 3-fingered hands and a slim body build! (2/2)

Art by Joschua Knüppe!

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-at 4-4.5 meters in length, it was actually quite large for a primitive tyrannosauroid! It also had a robust vertebrae that likely helped to support a larger skull, two traits that were inherited and improved upon by later members of the tyrannosaur lineage! (2/2)

Art by JELSIN!

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Dino Fact!

Alectrosaurus (Alone Lizard) is a tyrannosauroid from Late Cretaceous Asia! Also occasionally translated to "Mateless Lizard" or "Unmarried Lizard," its name refers to how it was very different from any other Asian theropod known - (1/2)

Art by Creative Beast Studio!

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Orotyrannus
"Mountain Tyrant"
A tyrannosauroid that specialized in living in higlands

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Here is. Timimus hermani, a tyrannosauroid pantyrannosaurian(? from the Early Cretaceous of Australia.
More tyrannosaurs to go coming soon.

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Spinosaurus niche tyrannosauroid

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Eotyrannus lengi, an early Cretaceous Tyrannosauroid from southern England.

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Siats Meekorum, Kevin Durant's his way to the popular Tyrannosauroid team, since he's now a Megaraptoran.

Just as Meraxes was being initiated to the Allosauroid group too!

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Today's warm-up, inspired by Darren Naish (AKA )'s paper on Eotyrannus. Megaraptorans being Tyrannosauroids is so cool!

The King and Queen of the Late Cretaceous, T.rex and Maip Macrothorax

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Happy - ICYMI Naish and Cau present the osteology and affinities of lengi, a theropod from the Wealden Supergroup of southern England

Full article https://t.co/d9nNc3kcvi

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It's obviously based on older data, so it's dated somewhat by this new study. Comparing it with the new skeletal, it's not awfully wrong, though. I should be painting more early tyrannosauroids in the near future, possibly including Eotyrannus.

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