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| NAME: | Meaning - Gorgosaurus means "Gorgon lizard" - Gorgons were three mythical Greek monsters (sisters) with snakes for hair - they turned people who looked at them to stone. Pronounced - GOR-go-SAWR-us Named By - Lawrence Lambe When Named - 1914 |
| DIET: | Carnivore (meat-eater) - it ate plant-eating dinosaurs like Lambeosaurus, Centrosaurus, Corythosaurus, Edmontonia, Euoplocephalus, and Styracosaurus |
| SIZE: | Length - 26-30 ft (8-9 m) long Height - 9.3 ft (2.8 m) tall at the hips Weight - 2.5 tons |
| WHEN IT LIVED: | Late Cretaceous period, about 76 to 68 million years ago |
| WHERE IT LIVED: | Fossils have been found in Alberta, Canada, North America. |
| FOSSILS: | Over 20 partial skeletons have been found. |
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Gorgosaurus was a tyrannosaur - it was closely related to T. rex and Albertosaurus. Gorgosaurus, like T. rex, had huge jaws with large, sharp, cone-shaped teeth, powerful legs, tiny arms and two-fingered hands. |
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