Moros

DV-1069 · type species Moros intrepidus

Lived: 101 to 94 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet: Carnivore
Group: Theropods
Found in: United States
Named by: Zanno et al. 2019

Field notes

About Moros

Moros was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 101 to 94 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Moros, from Utah. Its fossils come from the Cedar Mountain Formation. It was named by Zanno et al. in 2019.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

95 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Tyrannosauroidea.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: L. E. Zanno, R. T. Tucker, and A. Canoville, H. M. Avrahami, T. A. Gates, P. J. Makovicky. 2019. Diminutive fleet-footed tyrannosauroid narrows the 70-million-year gap in the North American fossil record. Communications Biology 2(1):61:1-12