Tameryraptor markgrafi Tameryraptor
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Tameryraptor 9 m (29.5 ft) long
6 people holding hands
- Length
- 9 m (29.5 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- Africa · Egypt
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Carcharodontosauridae
Tameryraptor (“thief from the beloved land”) is an extinct genus of large carcharodontosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian age) in what is now Egypt. It is known from a partial skeleton collected in rock layers from the Bahariya Formation by crews of German paleontologist Ernst Stromer in 1914, comprising an incomplete skull, vertebrae, and several other postcranial elements. Stromer described the specimen in 1931, referring it to the previously named Megalosaurus saharicus on the basis of its tooth anatomy, and placing it in a new genus, Carcharodontosaurus. In 1944, it was destroyed in the Bombing of Munich during the Second World War.
What we know
- Named by Kellermann, Cuesta & Rauhut, 2025.
- Body length estimated at about 9 m.
- Fossils found in Africa and Egypt.