TheropodaTyrannosauridae

Lythronax argestes

Lythronax argestes skeletal reconstruction, left lateral view, reconstructed length ~6.5 m.
Scale bar = 1 meter
Taxon
Lythronax argestes Loewen et al., 2013
Reconstructed length
~6.5 m (21 feet)
View
Left lateral
Drawing
© Scott Hartman
Drawn
2010, revised 2019
Clade
  1. Theropoda
  2. Tetanurae
  3. Coelurosauria
  4. Tyrannosauroidea
  5. Tyrannosauridae

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Lythronax was a large predatory theropod from the Late Cretaceous of Utah, where it lived on the island continent Laramidia. One of the oldest known tyrannosaurids, Lythronax had small arms and a skull with a short, broad snout with forward-facing eyes giving overlapping binocular vision.

Skeletal reconstruction and known material of Lythronax argestes from the describing paper (Loewen et al. 2013).
Skeletal and preserved elements of the type, from the paper that named the species. Loewen et al. 2013, PLOS ONE — CC BY 4.0

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