Skeleton discovery and naming

Skeletal restoration by William D. Matthew from 1905, published alongside Osborn's description paper

Barnum Brown, assistant curator of the American Museum of Natural History, found the first partial
skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex in eastern Wyoming in 1900. Brown found another partial skeleton in
the Hell Creek Formation in Montana in 1902, comprising approximately 34 fossilized bones.
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 Writing at the time Brown said "Quarry No. 1 contains the femur, pubes, humerus, three vertebrae
and two undetermined bones of a large Carnivorous Dinosaur not described by Marsh.... I have
never seen anything like it from the Cretaceous".[7] Henry Fairfield Osborn, president of the American
Museum of Natural History, named the second skeleton Tyrannosaurus rex in 1905. The generic
name is derived from the Greek words τύραννος (tyrannos, meaning "tyrant") and σαῦρος (sauros,
meaning "lizard"). Osborn used the Latin word rex, meaning "king", for the specific name. The
full binomial therefore translates to "tyrant lizard the king" or "King Tyrant Lizard", emphasizing the
animal's size and perceived dominance over other species of the time. [6]

Type specimen of Dynamosaurus imperiosus

Osborn named the other specimen Dynamosaurus imperiosus in a paper in 1905.[6] In 1906, Osborn
recognized that the two skeletons were from the same species and selected Tyrannosaurus as the
preferred name.[8] The original Dynamosaurus material resides in the collections of the Natural
History Museum, London.[9] In 1941, the T. rex type specimen was sold to the Carnegie Museum of
Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for $7,000.[7] Dynamosaurus would later be honored by
the 2018 description of another species of tyrannosaurid by Andrew McDonald and
colleagues, Dynamoterror dynastes, whose name was chosen in reference to the 1905 name, as it
had been a "childhood favorite" of McDonald's.[10]