Dynamoterror

Dynamoterror
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 78 Ma
Frontal bones in front view
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Family: Tyrannosauridae
Subfamily: Tyrannosaurinae
Clade: Teratophoneini
Genus: Dynamoterror
McDonald et al., 2018
Type species
Dynamoterror dynastes
McDonald et al., 2018

Dynamoterror (meaning "powerful terror") is a monospecific genus of tyrannosaurid dinosaur from New Mexico that lived during the Late Cretaceous (lower Campanian age, 78 Ma) in what is now the upper Allison Member of the Menefee Formation. The type and only species, Dynamoterror dynastes, is known from a subadult or adult individual about 9 metres (30 feet) long with an incomplete associated skeleton. It was named in 2018 by Andrew T. McDonald, Douglas G. Wolfe and Alton C. Dooley, Jr.[1] Dynamoterror was closely related to Teratophoneus and Lythronax.[2]

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