Moros

harbinger of doom (impending doom)

• Moros · Greek · impending doom (personified spirit of doom)

Moros comes from the Greek name of the personification of impending doom. The name was chosen to suggest the doom that tyrannosaurs would later bring to other animals as they rose to dominance. The species name intrepidus is Latin for "intrepid", referring to the hardiness this small tyrannosauroid needed to survive in a harsh Cretaceous North America.

Named by

Zanno et al.

Year named

2019

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Cenomanian

Found in

Mussentuchit Member, Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah, USA

A small, early tyrannosauroid (type species Moros intrepidus). It shows that tyrannosauroids were already present in North America about 96 million years ago, before they became giant.