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sharp-clawed runner
Dynamoterror
Say it like this: “die-NAM-o-TEH-ruh”
Dynamoterror dynastes
Dynamoterror ate meat and walked on two legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in the United States.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 2018 · McDonald, A. T.; Wolfe, D. G.; Dooley, A. C.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 9 m · 30 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- the United States · Menefee
- Food and walking
- Carnivore · Two legs
- Kind
- sharp-clawed runner · Theropod
- Family branch
- Tyrannosaurinae
The story in short
The genus Dynamoterror dates to 2018, the year A. T. McDonald and colleagues described it.
Fossils referred to Dynamoterror date to the Late Cretaceous (Campanian), roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from the United States, including the Menefee Formation. It was a carnivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Dynamoterror at a length near 9 m.
On the family tree it sits in Tyrannosaurinae, among the theropod dinosaurs.