Thanatotheristes degrootorum
"reaper of death"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Thanatotheristes 8 m (26.2 ft) long
as long as 5 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 8 m (26.2 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (80.3–79.5 Mya)
- Place
- North America · Canada · Alberta, Canada
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Tyrannosauridae Dinosauria Saurischia Theropoda Coelurosauria Tyrannosauroidea Late-Cretaceous tyrants: T. rex, Tarbosaurus, Albertosaurus.
Thanatotheristes (meaning “reaper of death” according to the original authors; literally, “death harvester” in Greek: Θάνατος, , “Death” and θεριστής, , “harvester”) is a genus of tyrannosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Laramidia, approximately 80.1-79.5 Ma. Thanatotheristes contains only one species, T. degrootorum. Fossils of this taxon are found in the Foremost Formation of Alberta, Canada, coexisting with medium-sized ceratopsids like Xenoceratops foremostensis and small pachycephalosaurids like Colepiocephale lambei.
What we know
- Named by Voris et al., 2020.
- Body length estimated at about 8 m.
- Fossils found in North America and Canada.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Thanatotheristes — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.