Dynamoterror
Field photograph to come
Dynamoterror
DV-1022 · type species Dynamoterror dynastes
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Tyrannosauridae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- McDonald et al. 2018
Field notes
About Dynamoterror
Dynamoterror was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago. It belongs to the family Tyrannosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Dynamoterror, from New Mexico. Its fossils come from the Menefee Formation. It was named by McDonald et al. in 2018.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Tyrannosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: A. T. McDonald, D. G. Wolfe, and A. C. Dooley. 2018. A new tyrannosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous Menefee Formation of New Mexico. PeerJ 6:e5749:1-25