Holotype
CM 9380
Tyrannosaurus rex
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- Catalog number
- CM 9380
- Institution
- Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CM)
- Year found
- 1902
- Found by
- Barnum Brown
- Locality
- Tyrannosaurus type locality, Hell Creek, Garfield County, Montana
- Formation
- Hell Creek Formation
What this specimen preserves
Holotype: CM 9380
- Preserved
- Partial
- Reconstructed
- Unknown / not recorded
Region by region (table)
| Region | State |
|---|---|
| Skull | Partial |
| Mandible | Partial |
| Teeth | Unknown / not recorded |
| Cervical vertebrae | Unknown / not recorded |
| Dorsal vertebrae | Partial |
| Sacrum | Unknown / not recorded |
| Caudal vertebrae | Unknown / not recorded |
| Ribs | Unknown / not recorded |
| Gastralia | Unknown / not recorded |
| Scapula / shoulder girdle | Unknown / not recorded |
| Humerus | Unknown / not recorded · Not reliably known for the holotype. |
| Forearm (radius / ulna) | Unknown / not recorded |
| Hand (manus) | Unknown / not recorded |
| Pelvis | Partial |
| Femur | Preserved |
| Tibia / fibula | Partial |
| Foot (pes) | Unknown / not recorded |
Excavation history
Found by Barnum Brown for the American Museum of Natural History in 1902 and described by Osborn in 1905 as AMNH 973. Sold to the Carnegie Museum in 1941, during the Second World War, and renumbered CM 9380.