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The skull of Allosaurus is well documented, although resources are scattered. The seminal skeletal reference of Madsen 1976 only partially documents the skull. Shown here are my collected skull images that were referenced in the production of the BrantWorks Allosaurus skeleton. The clade has a high diversity in body size and skull shape, including medium-sized taxa with long and low skulls , large taxa with short snouts , and a dwarf species from the Arctic Circle . Tyrannosaurines are geographically widespread; fossils have been collected in China and Mongolia, and throughout western North America... The diagrams, figs. 1-9, 24, 25, 37 and 40, are my own. W. D. M. Palæontology deals with the History of Life. Its time is measured in geologic epochs and periods, in millions of years instead of centuries. Man, by this measure, is but a creature of yesterday—his "forty centuries of civilization" [1] but a passing episode. It... Allosaurus skull diagram