Genus
Valid Extinct

Dynamoterror

McDonald et al. 2018

Dynamoterror is a monospecific genus of tyrannosaurid dinosaur from New Mexico that lived during the Late Cretaceous 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 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.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Dynamoterror
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Part of the holotype of Dynamoterror dynastes .mw-parser-output .smallcaps{font-variant:small-caps}McDonald et al. 2018 (UMNH VP 28348): Photographs and 3-D models of right (A, B) and left (C, D) frontals in rostral view. Abbreviations: bnp, base of nasal process; cnc, caudal extent of nasal cavity; plp, prefrontolacrimal process; pnp, prefrontonasal process; rpos, rostral part of postorbital suture; vls, ventrolateral part of lacrimal suture. Scale bars equal five cm. © Andrew T. McDonald​ , Douglas G. Wolfe , Alton C. Dooley Jr · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Theropoda Unranked clade
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Neotheropoda Unranked clade
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Averostra Unranked clade
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Tetanurae Unranked clade
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Coelurosauria Unranked clade
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Tyrannosauroidea Superfamily
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Tyrannosauridae Family
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Tyrannosaurinae Subfamily
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Teratophoneini Unranked clade
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Dynamoterror Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇺🇸 United States
1
Geological formations
Menefee
1
Temporal distribution
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Dynamoterror dynastes 84 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
A. T. McDonald, D. G. Wolfe, and A. C. Dooley. 2018. A new tyrannosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous Menefee Formation of New Mexico. PeerJ 6:e5749:1-25 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
A. T. McDonald, D. G. Wolfe, and A. C. Dooley. 2018. A new tyrannosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous Menefee Formation of New Mexico. PeerJ 6:e5749:1-25 DOI ↗