Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, middle Campanian 80.1–79.5 Ma
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Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Clade:
Dinosauria
Clade:
Saurischia
Clade:
Theropoda
Family:
†Tyrannosauridae
Subfamily:
†Tyrannosaurinae
Clade:
†Daspletosaurini
Genus:
†Thanatotheristes Voris et al., 2020[1]
Type species
†Thanatotheristes degrootorum
Voris et al., 2020[1]
Synonyms[2]
Daspletosaurus degrootorum? (Voris et al., 2020)
Thanatotheristes (meaning "reaper of death" according to the original authors;[1] literally, "death harvester" in Greek: Θάνατος, romanized:Thánatos, "Death"[3] and θεριστής, romanized:theristḗs, "harvester"[4]) is a genus of tyrannosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Laramidia, approximately 80.1-79.5 Ma. Thanatotheristes contains only one species, T. degrootorum. Fossils of this taxon are found in the Foremost Formation of Alberta, Canada, coexisting with medium-sized ceratopsids like Xenoceratops foremostensis and small pachycephalosaurids like Colepiocephale lambei.
^ abcVoris, Jared T.; Therrien, Francois; Zelenitzky, Darla K.; Brown, Caleb M. (2020). "A new tyrannosaurine (Theropoda:Tyrannosauridae) from the Campanian Foremost Formation of Alberta, Canada, provides insight into the evolution and biogeography of tyrannosaurids". Cretaceous Research. 110: 104388. Bibcode:2020CrRes.11004388V. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104388. S2CID 213838772.
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^"Thanatos, n." OED Online. Oxford University Press. September 2014. Retrieved November 18, 2014.
^"harvester - Wiktionary". en.wiktionary.org. January 18, 2022.
Thanatotheristes (meaning "reaper of death" according to the original authors; literally, "death harvester" in Greek: Θάνατος, romanized: Thánatos, "Death"...
(Middle Campanian) period. It consists of two genera: Daspletosaurus and Thanatotheristes. Four species have been described in the two genera, namely Daspletosaurus...
and Montana, but these have not been formally described. The taxon Thanatotheristes has been suggested to represent a species of Daspletosaurus, D. degrootorum...
clade containing Daspletosaurini, which includes Daspletosaurus and Thanatotheristes, and the Tyrannosaurini, which includes Zhuchengtyrannus, Tarbosaurus...
conducted by Loewen et al. in 2013. In 2020, when describing the genus Thanatotheristes, Voris et al., 2020 found Teratophoneus to be in a subclade alongside...
found support for a monophyletic clade containing Daspletosaurus and Thanatotheristes, typically referred to as the Daspletosaurini. In 1955, Soviet paleontologist...
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