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Introduction: As Chritopher Brochu once noted in his osteological study on Tyrannosaurus: "Nothing evokes prehistory more than Tyrannosaurus rex. Nearly any five-year-old in the industrialized world knows what it is, and to many, Tyrannosaurus is the quintessential predatory dinosaur-as Paul (1988:344) stated, "this is the theropod." It is the only nonavian dinosaur (and one of the few organisms) popularly known by the specific rather than generic name-"T. rex" is as common in the popular media as "Tyrannosaurus." As well as: “Tyrannosaurids are no more relevant to phylogenetics or comparative biology than any other group of organis