Tyrannosauroidea are a family of tyrannoraptorans which lived since the Mid Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous. The superfamily includes Tyrannosaurus rex, and Illiosuchus which was the earliest tyrannosaur along with Proceratosaurus which wasn't related to Ceratosaurus. This article is about new taxon and research of tyrannosaurs made in 2012.
- A nearly complete Tarbosaurus skeleton is set to go on auction.
- Yutyrannus-Yutyrannus was very similar to the larger Sinotyrannus. Yutyrannus lived 10 million years earlier than it's larger relative. It was said to be a proceratosaurid just like Guanlong and Proceratosaurus. It appeared in The Land Before Time.