Teratophoneus Teratophoneus
"monster"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Teratophoneus 6.1 m (20 ft) long
4 people holding hands
- Length
- 6.1 m (20 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (76.5–75.5 Mya)
- Place
- Utah, USA
- Food
- Carnivore
Teratophoneus (“monstrous murderer”; Greek: teras, “monster” and phoneus, “murderer”) is a genus of tyrannosaurine theropod dinosaur that lived during the late Campanian age of the Late Cretaceous period, (about 76.5 to 75.5 million years ago) in what is now Utah. It contains a single known species, T. curriei, named in honor of paleontologist Philip J. Currie. It is known from an incomplete skull and postcranial skeleton recovered from the Kaiparowits Formation.
What we know
- Named by Carr et al., 2011.
- Body length estimated at about 6.1 m.
- Fossils found in Utah, USA.