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[dinosaur] Stokesosauridae validly named



A recent paper that seems to have flown under the radar, would've missed it myself if I weren't browsing Zootaxa by chance.

Chan-gyu Yun and Thomas D. Carr (2020)
StokesosauridaeÂclade nov., a new family name for a branch of basal tyrannosauroids.
Zootaxa 4755 (1): 195-196
doi:Â http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4755.1.13ÂÂ
https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4755.1.13ÂÂ

The majority of tyrannosauroid phylogenies published in the last 10 years have recovered a clade of basal tyrannosauroids that include Stokesosaurus clevelandi Madsen, 1974, Eotyrannus lengi Hutt et al., 2001 and Juratyrant langhami (Benson, 2008), which is positioned between Dilong Xu et al., 2004 and more derived tyrannosauroids such as Xiongguanlong Li et al., 2010 (e.g., Brusatte et al., 2010, 2011; Brusatte and Benson, 2013; LÃ et al., 2014; Brusatte and Carr, 2016; Yun, 2016; Carr et al., 2017; Delcourt and Grillo, 2018; Nesbitt et al., 2019; Zanno et al., 2019; Wu et al., 2020). Carr et al. (2017) first called this clade as âStokesosauridaeâ, but did not define or diagnose this clade; but later the name was adopted and Âused as valid by Wu et al. (2020).