Genus: Dynamoterror McDONALD, WOLFE, & DOOLEY JR, 2018 (nomen dubium)
Etymology: Greek, dynamis, "power" and Latin, terror, "fright, fear, terror."
Species: dynastes McDONALD, WOLFE, DOOLEY JR, 2018 (nomen dubium)
Etymology: Latin, dynastes, "ruler": The intended meaning of the binomen is "powerful terror ruler." The name also honors the binomen "Dynamosaurus imperisosus" (Osborn, 1905), a junior synonym of Tyrannosaurus rex (Osborn, 1905, 1906), but a particular childhood favorite of the lead author.
Holotype: UMNH VP 28348
Locality: Outcrops of the Juans lake Beds, San Juan County, New Mexico.
Note: Precise locality data are on file at UMNH and the BLM.
Horizon: Allison Member, Menefee Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Lower Campanian Stage, Senonian subepoch, Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.
Material: Left and right frontals, four fragmentary vrtebral cenra,fragments of dorsal ribs, right metacarpal II, supraacetabular crest of the right ilium, unidentifiable fragments of long bones, phalanx 2 of left pedal digit IV, and phalanx 4 of left pedal digit IV.