Reconstructed adult and juvenile skeletons, Natural History Museum of Utah
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Clade:
Dinosauria
Clade:
Saurischia
Clade:
Theropoda
Family:
†Tyrannosauridae
Subfamily:
†Tyrannosaurinae
Clade:
†Teratophoneini
Genus:
†Teratophoneus Carr et al., 2011
Type species
†Teratophoneus curriei
Carr et al., 2011
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 77 to 76 million years ago) in what is now Utah. It contains a single known species, T. curriei. It is known from an incomplete skull and postcranial skeleton recovered from the Kaiparowits Formation and was specifically named T. curriei in honor of famed paleontologist Philip J. Currie.
means that Teratophoneus lived in the middle of the Campanian age. Several fossils of Teratophoneus have been found. Originally, Teratophoneus was described...
derived Teratophoneus and Lythronax, while Brusatte and Carr placed it in a more basal position directly outside Tyrannosauridae, with both Teratophoneus and...
be named until the 2010s, where in 2011 announced the publication of Teratophoneus by Thomas D. Carr and colleagues. The fossils were first found in the...
Wolfe and Alton C. Dooley, Jr. Dynamoterror was closely related to Teratophoneus and Lythronax. In August 2012, a partial skeleton of a tyrannosaurid...
Albertosaurus and Gorgosaurus, while Tyrannosaurinae includes Daspletosaurus, Teratophoneus, Bistahieversor, Tarbosaurus, Nanuqsaurus, Zhuchengtyrannus, and Tyrannosaurus...
Tyrannosaurinae such as Tyrannosaurus rex, Nanuqsaurus hoglundi, Daspletosaurus, Teratophoneus, and theropods of Albertosaurinae such as Albertosaurus and Gorgosaurus...
Allosaurus-dominated Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry of Utah, a potential Teratophoneus bone bed from Utah, an Albertosaurus bone bed from Alberta, a Daspletosaurus...
classified in the subfamily Tyrannosaurinae. It is more derived than Teratophoneus, but less derived than Lythronax. It forms the sister taxon of a group...
shows many characteristics typical of early tyrannosaurines such as Teratophoneus and even some of the later Tyrannosaurus, which may suggest an entirely...
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