Lythronax argestes Zuul placed it at the top

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

The Shaximiao Formation documents an extremely diverse fauna composed of giant sauropods

and large wingspans

Lythronax argestes Zuul placed it at the topLythronax 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