Teratophoneus
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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 77 to 76 million years ago) in what is now Utah. It contains a single known species, T. curriei. It is known from an incomplete skull and postcranial skeleton recovered from the Kaiparowits Formation and was specifically named T. curriei in honor of famed paleontologist Philip J. Currie.
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Teratophoneus | |
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Reconstructed adult and juvenile skeletons, Natural History Museum of Utah | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Family: | †Tyrannosauridae |
Subfamily: | †Tyrannosaurinae |
Clade: | †Teratophoneini |
Genus: | †Teratophoneus Carr et al., 2011 |
Type species | |
†Teratophoneus curriei Carr et al., 2011 |
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