| Thanatotheristes Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, middle Campanian
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Tyrannosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Tyrannosaurinae |
| Clade: | †Daspletosaurini |
| Genus: | †Thanatotheristes Voris et al., 2020[1] |
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| †Thanatotheristes degrootorum Voris et al., 2020[1]
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Thanatotheristes (meaning "reaper of death" according to the original authors;[1] literally, "death harvester" in Greek: Θάνατος, romanized: Thánatos, "Death"[3] and θεριστής, romanized: theristḗs, "harvester"[4]) is a genus of tyrannosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Laramidia, approximately 80.1-79.5 Ma. Thanatotheristes contains only one species, T. degrootorum. Fossils of this taxon are found in the Foremost Formation of Alberta, Canada, coexisting with medium-sized ceratopsids like Xenoceratops foremostensis and small pachycephalosaurids like Colepiocephale lambei.
- ^ a b c Voris, Jared T.; Therrien, Francois; Zelenitzky, Darla K.; Brown, Caleb M. (2020). "A new tyrannosaurine (Theropoda:Tyrannosauridae) from the Campanian Foremost Formation of Alberta, Canada, provides insight into the evolution and biogeography of tyrannosaurids". Cretaceous Research. 110: 104388. Bibcode:2020CrRes.11004388V. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104388. S2CID 213838772.
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- ^ "harvester - Wiktionary". en.wiktionary.org. January 18, 2022.