Yutyrannus's avatar
They are not related. Abelisaurs are ceratosaurs and tyrannosaurs are coelurosaurs.
PeteriDish's avatar
then the remains must be very fragmentary if the classification allows for such wiggle room
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Evenape's avatar
We should add that with the fact that tyrannosaurids and abelisaurids are quite similar in their own right...
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I wouldn't say they are that similar, they are just similar in that they are both large theropods with puny arms and large skulls.
Evenape's avatar
Well, they are textbook examples of convergent evolution, I think...

All the similarities you said put together makes them quite similar...
Yutyrannus's avatar
I suppose.The similarities are quite faint though.
Evenape's avatar
Indeed... They have similar general proportions, that's all
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