This may be their missing link in the latest discovery as they continue digging up bones.
Daspletosaurus diadematus https://t.co/NiAZre3ah0 via @PeerJLife
New #fossil provides insights into the pattern and process of tyrannosaurid #dinosaur #evolution
Warshaw & Fowler 222 @thePeerJ A transitional species of Daspletosaurus Russell, 1970 from the Judith River Formation of eastern Montana
https://t.co/xFbUzPvngr https://t.co/d1St8IRKP1
@Moskops23 @HimaRudolf @df9465 @AndreyAtuchin This is laid out more thoroughly in the paper (accessible for free at https://t.co/6duSeTRM9F), but a few differences between D. wilsoni and D. torosus are:
- greater inflation of the lacrimal
- taller eye socket
- more forward facing premax teeth
-slightly shorter lacrimal horn