Teratophoneus
Sign in to saveTeratophoneus ("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.
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- Paleoecology
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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 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.
==Discovery and naming== thumb|left|alt=Skeletal reconstruction of two tyrannosaurs superimposed over each other, with known bones highlighted in yellow; photographs of various fossils appear below|Skeletal diagrams showing type (biology)|holotype remains of [[Lythronax (A) and a Teratophoneus specimen (B). C–M show selected bones of the latter]]