Dynamoterror dynastes Dynamoterror
"powerful terror"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Dynamoterror 10 m (33 ft) long
6 people holding hands
- Length
- 10 m (33 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (83–78 Mya)
- Place
- Mexico · New Mexico, USA
- Food
- Carnivore
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. Dynamoterror was closely related to Teratophoneus and Lythronax.
What we know
- Named by McDonald et al., 2018.
- Fossils found in Mexico and New Mexico, USA.