Alioramus remotus Kurzanov, 1976

Christopher A. Brochu, 2003, Osteology of Tyrannosaurus rex: insights from a nearly complete skeleton and high-resolution computed tomographic analysis of the skull, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22, pp. 1-138 : 5

Alioramus remotus Kurzanov, 1976

—Material pertaining to this specimen was not directly studied, and the figures published by Kurzanov (1976b) are not very detailed. Alioramus is based on an incomplete, disarticulated skull from the Maastrichtian of Mongolia. The remains suggest a rather small animal with a dorsoventrally low rostrum and pronounced rugosities along the nasal’s dorsal surface. It shares with other tyrannosaurids an enlarged surangular foramen and an anterior flange on the quadratojugal ascending process. It differs from other tyrannosaurids in the increased number of maxillary teeth and the extreme nature of the nasal rugosities (Currie, 2000a; Holtz, 2001a). I was unable to examine this material first-hand.