Dynamoterror type locality [UMNH] (PROXY) (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Also known as Juans Lake Beds

Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.1° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 79.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Allison Member (Menefee Formation), Early/Lower Campanian to Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• upper part of the Allison Member, Menefee Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E. Gutierrez, B. Watkins, S. Cordero et al. in 2012–2013, 2018

Collection methods: surface (float),

• "UMNH VP 28348 was found in August 2012 by Eric Gutierrez and Brian Watkins and collected by Sam Cordero, W. H. and Nancy Ebbinghaus, Eric Gutierrez, Brandon Hedrick, Jake Kudlinski, Adam Laing, Andrew T. McDonald, Sherman and Ben Mohler, James Poole, John Rockhill, Korri Dee Turner, Brian Watkins, and Douglas G. Wolfe."

Primary reference: A. T. McDonald, D. G. Wolfe, and A. C. Dooley. 2018. A new tyrannosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous Menefee Formation of New Mexico. PeerJ 6:e5749:1-25 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 219263: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.04.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Dynamoterror dynastes n. gen. n. sp.
Dynamoterror dynastes n. gen. n. sp. McDonald et al. 2018 tyrannosaurine
UMNH VP 28348, partial skeleton