Genus: Daspletosaurus RUSSELL, 1970
Etymology: Greek, dasplet-(dasples) “frightful” and Greek, sauros “lizard”, Frightful lizard.

Species: torosus RUSSELL, 1970
Etymology:

Holotype: CMN 8056

Locality: Quarry 88 of Sternberg 1905, Near Steveville, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Oldman Formation, middle Judith River Group.
Note: Not in the Dinosaur Park Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, Senonian subepoch, Upper Gulf epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material: Skull and lower jaws, skeleton lacking hind limbs.
Note: Palaeopathology, the distal end of one humerus exhibits an unspecified pathology. Bite marks on the lower right dentary and left dentary (BROWN, CURRIE & THERRIEN, 2021).

Referred material:

Locality: Near Manyberries, near centre NW. 1/4 sec. 36, tp.1, rge. 6, W. 4th mer., about 30 feet below prairie rim or 3,285 feet above sea level, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Dinosaur Park Formation, upper Judith River Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

NMC (CMN) 11594: Incomplete, weathered skull and lower jaws.
Note: Dentry with bite marks on the ventral and posterior portion of dentary (BROWN, CURRIE & THERRIEN, 2021).

Locality: Badlands of the Red Deer River just west of Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Dinosaur Park Formation, upper Judith River Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

RTMP 85.62.1: Fragmentary skull and fragmentary skeleton.
Note: Has face bites (TANKE & CURRIE, (1998) 2000)

 

CURRIE, 2003

Locality: Milk River, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Oldman Formation, middle Judith River Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, Senonian subepoch, Upper Gulf epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

RTMP 2001.36.1: Skull and skeleton.

Note: Has erosive lesions, probably from Trichomonas gallinae-like protozoan on the dentary (WOLFF, SALISBURY, HORNER & VARRICCHIO, 2009) . Lesion description: Round to slit-shaped, tapered edges, remodelled.

Note: Has evidance of face bitting (WOLFF, SALISBURY, HORNER & VARRICCHIO, 2009) .

 

Locality: Dinosaur Provincial Park, Quarry 210, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Dinosaur Park Formation, upper Judith River Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

RTMP 1992.036.1220: Skull and skeleton.
Note: Bite mark on the lower angular (BROWN, CURRIE & THERRIEN, 2021).

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Species: Nova CARR & WILLIAMSON, 1999

Holotype: NMMNH P-25049

Locality: NMMNH locality 3097, Pinabete Arroyo, Bisti/De-na-zin Wilderness area, San Juan Basin, New Mexico.

Horizon: Farmington Member, Kirtland Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Upper Campanian Stage, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material: Incomplete skull and skeleton.
Note: Palaeopathology, the ectopterygoid seems to have sustained a puncture and became infected and one rib shows a healed fracture (MOLNAR, 2001).

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Species: Nova WILLIAMSON & CARR, 1999

Holotype: NMMNH P-27469

Locality: NMMNH locality 3506, Bisti/De-na-zin Wilderness area, San Juan Basin, New Mexico.

Horizon: Hunter Wash Member, Kirtland Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Upper Campanian Stage, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material: Fragmentary skull and fragmentary skeleton.
Note: Paleopathology, possible puncture wound on a palatal bone (ectopterygoid) and related infection of bone and nearby periosteal tissue and a rib that shows a healed fracture.

Referred material:

CARR & WILLIAMSON, 2006

NMMNH P-25049: Partial skeleton of a subadult.
Note: Paleopathology, a large lesion is present between the neck fo the femur and the diaphysis.

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Sp

= Aublysodon sp LEHMAN & CARPENTER 1990

Locality: Northeast of Chaco Canyon, San Juan County, New Mexico.

Horizon: Fruitland Formation or lower part of the Kirtland Shale, Bisti, Hunter Wash or Farmington Sandstone Members.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Judithian age or Early Edmontonian age, Campanian-Maastrichtian Stages, Senonian subepoch, Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

OMNH 10131: Posterior parts of both frontals, anterior part of the fused parietals, teeth, incomplete dentary, parts of both femora, a tibia, pubes, metatarsals, several ribs, ilium, and gastralia.
Note: As per CARR & WILLIAMSON, 2000
Note: Paleopathology? Posterior-most tooth is abnormally positioned.

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MIYASHITA, TANKE & CURRIE, 2008, 2010

Locality: Denhart Coulee, southern Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Dinosaur Park Formation, Belly River Group, 5 m above the boundary with the underlying Oldman Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

RTMP 2007.20.124: Fragmentary premaxilla with 3 aveoli.

Note: Pathologic.

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TANKE & CURRIE, (1998) 2000, HONE & TANKE, 2015

Locality: Dinosaur Provincial Park, Quarry 215, Alberta Province, Canada.

Horizon: Dinosaur Park Formation, upper Judith River Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian age, Middle Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

RTMP 1994.143.0001: A partially disarticulated skull, and partial skeleton of an immature individual.
Note: Pathology, at least 50 dental and osseious lesions or abnormalities. Osteomyelitic bones on left quadrates, 2 holes and a large patch of osteomelities on right surangular.

Note: Has erosive lesions, probably from Trichomonas gallinae-like protozoan on the dentary (WOLFF, SALISBURY, HORNER & VARRICCHIO, 2009) . Lesion description: Slit-shaped, tapered edges, remodelled.

Note: Has evidence of face bitting (WOLFF, SALISBURY, HORNER & VARRICCHIO, 2009, HONE & TAKE, 2015).

Note: Possible bite traces after death on teh skull, and dentary.