Lythronax

gore king

• lythron · Greek · gore (blood shed in battle)
• anax · Greek · king

The name combines the Greek "lythron" (gore, blood from battle) and "anax" (king or lord). It was chosen for this tyrannosaurid as a "gore king", a predator at the top of its food chain. The type species is Lythronax argestes, whose species name refers to Argestes, the Greek god of the southwest wind, a nod to where the fossil was found in North America.

Named by

Loewen et al.

Year named

2013

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Campanian

Found in

Wahweap Formation, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA

A tyrannosaurid (tyrannosaurine) theropod. Its short, wide snout with forward-facing eyes helped show that tyrannosaurid features evolved in stages.