Bahariasaurus

• Bahariyya oasis, Egypt

Bahariasaurus is a theropod dinosaur from the group of Tetanurae. The only one of its kind so far attributed type is Bahariasaurus ingens. Bahariasaurus applies dubium as a noun and is possibly identical with Deltadromeus. It was a large, bipedal predators. Bone finds date from the early Cretaceous (Lower Cenomanian ) of Egypt, and out possibly from Niger.

Discovery history

The holotype material ( HM 1922 X47 ) was, like Spinosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus, 1911-1914 discovered by a German expedition led by Ernst Stromer in the Egyptian Bahariyya oasis. During the Second World War, the fossils were destroyed in 1944 during a bombing raid on Munich. The material consisted among other things of vertebrae, pelvic vertebrae, ribs and pubis and ischium fragments and probably belonged to a nearly 12 -meter-long and 2.5 -ton animal. Other findings were also associated with the Bahariasaurus of electricity, as well as some of Lapparent vertebrae.

Relationships

The phylogenetic classification of Bahariasaurus is still controversial. Rauhut wrote Bahariasaurus the Carcharodontosauriden, a family within the Allosauroidea to. However, critics say the material ( HM 1912 VIII 62b; vertebrae ), the basis for its conclusions, not one of Bahariasaurus, but perhaps to Carcharodontosaurus.

Chure claiming that it was a close relative of tyrannosaurids.