[Ads-l] Fw: Antedating of "Tyrannosaurus" and "Tyrannosaurus Rex"

[Bill Mullins]

I can't tell if this cite was published prior to or after Fred's cite below, but this is the original publication of the discovery and naming of T. Rex as a new species.

1905 H. F. Osborn  "Tyrannosaurus and other Cretaceous carnivorous dinosaurs" in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. vol. 21

(p. 259) I propose to make this animal the type of the new genus Tyrannosaurus, in reference to its size, which greatly exceeds that of any carnivorous land animal hitherto described.

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(p. 262) Rough outline showing scale of size of Tyrannosaurus rex.

https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstreams/74b0c924-1046-4067-9795-b028089f30c3/download



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Subject: Antedating of "Tyrannosaurus" and "Tyrannosaurus Rex"

Tyrannosaurus (OED 1906), Tyrannosaurus Rex (OED 1906)

1905 _Butte_ (Mont.) _Inter Mountain_ 18 Nov. 2/3 (Newspapers.com)  Prof. Henry D. Osborn ... has conferred upon this newly discovered monster the title "Tyrannosaurus Rex." In plain Englih, this means the "Tyrant King Saurian," or the "King of Tyrant Saurians."

Fred Shapiro

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