Thanatotheristes

reaper of death

• Thanatos · Greek · death
• theristes · Greek · reaper

The name combines the Greek "Thanatos" (death) with "theristes" (reaper or harvester), giving "reaper of death". It was chosen as a reference to the Grim Reaper and to the harvesting of crops on the farmland of southern Alberta, where the fossil was found. The type species, T. degrootorum, honors the DeGroot family, who found the fossil on their land.

Named by

Voris et al.

Year named

2020

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Campanian

Found in

Foremost Formation, Alberta, Canada

A tyrannosaurine tyrannosaurid theropod. It is the oldest known tyrannosaurine from northern North America. It lived about 79.5 million years ago.