Nearly Complete Teratophoneus curriei Airlifted from Utah’s Grand Staircase

[Oxytropidoceras]

Nearly complete tyrannosaur fossil airlifted from Utah’s

Grand Staircase. Specimen of T. rex-like Teratophoneus

curriei dinosaur is heading to Natural History Museum

of Utah in Salt Lake City for study and possible display.

Salt Lake tribune, October 15, 2017

http://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2017/10/15/nearly-complete-tyrannosaur-fossil-airlifted-from-utahs-grand-staircase/

 

Teratophoneus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teratophoneus

 

Related paper:

 

Loewen, M.A., Irmis, R.B., Sertich, J.J., Currie, P.J. and

Sampson, S.D., 2013. Tyrant dinosaur evolution tracks

the rise and fall of Late Cretaceous oceans. PloS one,

8(11), p.e79420.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0079420

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.