Tameryraptor markgrafi

Generic theropod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Tameryraptor 9 m (29.5 ft) long
as long as 6 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic theropod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Tameryraptor
Length
9 m (29.5 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
Place
Africa · Egypt
Food
Carnivore
Clade
Carcharodontosauridae
Tameryraptor reconstruction by Ddinodan
Reconstruction · Ddinodan (CC-BY)

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.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Tameryraptor — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.