Lythronax argestes Zuul equipped with a horny beak

equipped with a horny beak for slicing through vegetation and a battery of specialized teeth for crushing it

placed it at the top of the food chain in its habitat

Due to its strange morphology and unusual diet

Osteological studies of its skull and recent reviews of its palaeobiology place it as an apex predator capable of attacking large Triassic vertebrates

which allowed it to pluck and crush vegetation

Lythronax argestes Zuul equipped with a horny beakLythronax argestes was a carnivorous theropod dinosaur of the Tyrannosauridae group that lived during the Late Cretaceous , in the early middle Campanian (approximately 8079 million years ago) . Its remains come from the Wahweap Formation , in what is now southern Utah (United States) , within the ancient island continent of Laramidia , and its discovery has been key to understanding the origin and early diversification of tyrannosaurids in North