Dynamoterror

powerful terror

• dynamo · Greek · power, force (from dynamis)
• terror · Latin · terror

The name combines the Greek-derived "dynamo" (power or force) with the Latin "terror", giving roughly "powerful terror". It refers to this animal as a powerfully built tyrannosaur that was a fearsome predator. The only named species, D. dynastes, adds the Greek word for "ruler" or "lord".

Named by

McDonald, Wolfe and Dooley

Year named

2018

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Campanian

Found in

Menefee Formation, New Mexico, USA

A tyrannosaurid theropod known from partial skull and skeletal remains. It is the only tyrannosaur known from the Menefee Formation and is a relatively early, mid-sized tyrannosaurid.