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Daspletosaurus torosus skeletal reconstruction.

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Spread throughout several different formations and potentially represented by up to 4 species (D.torosus is only known for certain to have lived in the Oldman formation, where the type specimen was found), Daspletosaurus is North America's original robust tyrannosaur... with surprisingly long arms. In the Dinosaur Park formation, where it coexists with the seemingly more common and more cursorial Gorgosaurus, Russell (1970) suggests that this genus would have mainly fed on ceratopsians, while Gorgosaurus more often targeted hadrosaurs. In the Two Medicine formation, at least three Daspletosaurus of different ages were found together with the partially-eaten remains of hadrosaurs, in a likely example of Komodo dragon-like feeding mobs.

References:
-Osborn, Henry Fairfield (1917). "Skeletal adaptations of OrnitholestesStruthiomimusTyrannosaurus". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History35 (43): 733–771. hdl:2246/1334.
-Russell, Dale A. (1970). "Tyrannosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of western Canada". National Museum of Natural Sciences Publications in Paleontology.
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Terrific work!