Moros intrepidus

Moros is a genus of primitive tyrannosauroid that lived in North America during the earlier‭ ‬stages of the Late cretaceous.‭ ‬The holotype‭ ‬fossils of Moros date from the Cenomanian of the Cretaceous,‭ ‬meaning that the discovery of these has turned back the clock on the first known appearance of a definitive tyrannosaur in North America by a‭ ‬further fifteen million years.‭ ‬With perhaps a grim sense of humour the describers named this new genus Moros which is ancient Greek for‭ ‬impending doom‭’‬.‭ ‬A fitting name when you consider that later tyrannosaurs would become the apex predators of North America.‭ Unfortunately all we known at the time of writing about Moros are some partial leg and foot bones and some teeth.‭ ‬The leg length of Moros has been estimated by the genus describers to be about one hundred and twenty centimetres long,‭ ‬but these‭ ‬fossil bones are also of a subadult individual.‭ ‬Fully grown adults may have been slightly bigger,‭ ‬but without further fossil discoveries we can only make a best guess at the remainder of‭ ‬the body proportions.