Tyrannasorus rex
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This article is about the beetle. For the dinosaur, see Tyrannosaurus.
| Tyrannasorus rex | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Subfamily: | Hybosoridae |
| Genus: | Tyrannasorus |
| Species: | T. rex |
| Binomial name | |
| Tyrannasorus rex Ratcliffe & Ocampo, 2001 |
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Tyrannasorus rex was a species of beetle known to exist in the Miocene epoch. It was named after Tyrannosaurus rex, the dinosaur, although its discoverers provide an etymology for the name based on the word Hybosorus, the genus that formed the basis for the subfamily, known as Hybosoridae, to which the species belongs. A fossilized example scarabaeoid was found embedded in the amber resin of Hymenaea protera in the Dominican Republic.[1]
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- ^ Tyrannasorus rex Raltliffe and Ocampo (abstract)
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