[Rockhounds] Nearly Complete Teratophoneus curriei Airlifted from Utah’s Grand Staircase
Paul
etchplain at att.net
Tue Oct 17 16:45:27 PDT 2017
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>
Keywords, Teratophoneus curriei, Grand Staircase-Escalante
National Monument, Cretaceous, Natural History Museum of Utah
Kaiparowits Plateau, Utah
Yours,
Paul H.
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