Photos of fossils destroyed in World War II reveal new species of dinosaur

The recent genre, Tameryraptorunites the old Egyptian term “Ta-youy“, which translates as” Promised Land, “and the word raptor, which in Latin is” thief “. The designation of the species markgrafi Pay tribute to the German fossil collector Richard Markgrafresponsible for the excavation of the dinosaur in the Bahariya In 1914, as the study reveals communicated on the study

Scientists found that the dinosaur was about 10 meters long, almost the size of the famous T-rex, which had, on average, 12 meters.

TAMERYRAPTOR EVIDENCE ERROR IN PREVIOUS CLASSIFICATION

The discovery of the Tameryraptor refutes data on another fossil studied in the early twentieth century. Found in the Bahariya Oasis, in the Western Desert of Egypt, fossilized remains were studied by German paleontologist Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach.

Stromer classified the fossil as belonging to a new genre: Carcharodontosaurus Saharicus (reptile with Sahara shark tooth). However, the play was destroyed in a fire and, in the 1990s, a new dinosaur skull fossil of the genus Carcharodontosaurus was found in Morocco, becoming the only one to represent the species.