A new Mongolian tyrannosauroid and the evolution of Eutyrannosauria

Citation

Voris, J. T.; Zelenitsky, D. K.; Kobayashi, Y.; Modesto, S. P.; Therrien, F.; Tsutsumi, H.; Chinzorig, T.; Tsogtbaatar, K. (2025). A new Mongolian tyrannosauroid and the evolution of Eutyrannosauria. Nature 642(8069): 973-979. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08964-6

Names first published here

• Khankhuuluu genus
• Khankhuuluu mongoliensis species

Cited by genera

• Khankhuuluu
• Nanotyrannus

  Excludes N. lancensis from its phylogenetic analysis as a "problematic" taxon.

Cited by clades

• Eutyrannosauria

  Uses Eutyrannosauria (Delcourt and Grillo, 2018) as an established clade and recovers Khankhuuluu mongoliensis as its immediate sister taxon.