Teratophoneus
Field photograph to come
Teratophoneus
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- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Tyrannosauridae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Carr et al. 2011
Field notes
About Teratophoneus
Teratophoneus 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 2 finds of Teratophoneus, from Utah. Its fossils come from the Kaiparowits Formation. It was named by Carr et al. in 2011.
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: T. D. Carr, T. E. Williamson, and B. B. Britt, K. L. Stadtman. 2011. Evidence for high taxonomic and morphologic tyrannosauroid diversity in the Late Cretaceous (Late Campanian) of the American Southwest and a new short-skulled tyrannosaurid from the Kaiparowits Formation of Utah. Naturwissenschaften 98(3):241-246